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The most anticipated game in Macintosh history will be available on December 3rd. 



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20 Twenty 
of Macintosh 



It’s been 20 wild and wonderful— though at times worrying- 
years since Apple introduced the original Mac. Join us for a 
whirlwind tour of the last two decades, by Emory Christensen 



35 Mac ^^ 

Smackdosvn! 

What happens when you m G5 againsjlha high-end Pentium 4? 
You’re about to find out. by ^Hfl^siewski 

40 Panther: Worth 

Every Penny 

Get this; Not only is Panther worth $129— it actually 
will end up savingyou money in the long run. Find out 
how as we show you around Apple’s new operating 
system, by Deborah Shadovitz 



howto 

66 Ask Us 

Find out how to move your Home 
directory to an external drive, what 
makes AppleWorks slow down, why 
Apple Mail prints so damn small, how 
to tap the magic behind Safari’s tabbed 
browsing, and much more. 

68 Build Your Own 
Music Maker 

Pianos, guitars, drums— even violins and 
bagpipes. Why buy these instruments 
when you can play ’em for free? We show 
you how to build a software keyboard 
to play music. (Sorry— we can’t promise 
you groupies.) by Erick Tejkowski 



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72 Play Hidden Unix Games 
and Other Oddities 



Tell your boss or mate you’re 
studying Mac OS X’s Unix- 
kernel underbelly. What they 
don’t need to know is that 
you’re really calling up OS X’s 
secret stash of classic games, 
by Ian Harris 




Pong, or the world’s 
easiest Tetris clone? 



74 Make Widgets with 
Konfabulator 

If you love desktop toys and 
gadgets, you know about 
Konfabulator. if you don’t, 
you’re going to wish you 
had known about it a lot 
sooner. The real fun, though, 
lies in rolling your own 
Konfabulator Widgets, 
by johnathon Williams 




Sunny, with 
a chance of 
solar flares. 



January 2004 MacAddIct 05 











CONTENTS . : 

a better machine, a better mag^^inc; 




every menth 

10 Editors’ Page 

Somebody helped you become a Mac addict. Thank them. 



12 Get Info 

Woz*s world: Apple’s cofounder talks to us about Macs, Mac 
OS X, and Steve Jobs. Also, the scoop on Unreal Tournament 
2004, a chic Bluetooth cell phone, what’s inside Virginia 
Tech’s G5 supercomputer, and why you should care about 
iTunes for Windows. 



47 Reviews 

52 Canvas 9 Professional Edition graphics suite 

59 Chronoscan book-cataloging system 

56 EiuraSO digital video camcorder 
58 iTrIp FM transmitter for iPod 

58 Media Reader for iPod portable media-card reader 
61 Memory Mini Mouse input device/USB drive 

54 Neverwinter Nights roie-playing game 

55 PyroDV Drive DV-capturing hard drive 

60 Quicken 2004 financial- management software 

57 Rio Cali flash-based MP3 player 

51 Soundtrack music-composition software 

61 Store ’n’ Go USB 2.0 flash drive 

48 Studio MX 2004 Web-development suite 

58 Voice Recorder microphone for iPod 
58 VS4121 speaker set 

57 Wireless InteliiMouse Explorer mouse 
60 Wireless Optical Desktop keyboard and mouse 



62 The Hot List 

If the editors of MacAddict went shopping, 
this is what we’d buy. 



QUICK TIPS 

FROM THIS MONTH’S ISSUE 



♦ CUT CORNERS IN PHOTOSHOP 

To quickly change the brush size In 
Photoshop, use the left-bracket key 
([) to make the brush smaller and the 
right-bracket key (]) to make it bigger. 

| ¥rom Ask Us, p66. 

♦ CONTROL MAIL’S PRINT SIZE 

When printing from Apple’s Mail 
program, make the email window 
larger to print the message larger, and 
vice versa. From Ask Us, p67. 

♦ GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC 

Use iTunes Music Store 
gift certificates to give 
your friends $20 to $200 
toward the purchase 
of new tunes. Hopefully they’ll 
reciprocate. From Get Info, pl4. 




♦ DISABLE FONTS IN PANTHER 

Panther’s Font Book not only lets you 
install fonts but also disable them. Just 
select a font and then click the Disable 
button. From “Panther: Worth Every 
Penny,” p40. 

♦ GIVE YOUR IPOD A BREAK 

Awesome as the iPod is, there’s a time 
and a place for everything— and your 
sweaty, pounding- 
the-treadmill hand 
Is no place for such a 
refined and expensive 
piece of hardware. Get 
a more-rugged MP3 
player for working out. 

From Reviews, p57. 





94 Log Out 

94 letters 

Passionate readers weigh in on left-wing 
tendencies, Christian sensibilities, the 
MacScan scandal, and the sex appeal 
of aluminum. 

95 Contest 

Win one of HP’s gorgeous see-through 
vertical scanners. 

96 Shut Down 

A new iPod accessory brings new 
convenience to your life, and other news. 

Arugula-Escarote, 

Radicchio-USB 
Delight! 




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Macromedia Studio 



DEVELOPMENT 

Dreamweaver MX 2004 trial 
eZedlaQT1 1.0.1 demo 
Flash MX Professional 2004 
REALbasic 5.2.1 demo 



Many-Splendored Thing 



Take a stroll down 
Mac memory lane, 
and follow one 
woman’s undying 
love affair with 
her Macs through 
the years. 



.the disc 

Before you plop down $999 for Macromedia 
Studio MX 2004's pro edition, pop this 
month’s Disc into your Mac and take the 
latest and greatest versions of Dreamweaver, 
Flash, Fireworks, and Freehand for a test 
drive— and if there’s something creative they 
can’t do, we’re willing to bet Canvas 9 can. 



Mac>4ddict 

iBMB PUBUSHER Chris Coelho 



Macromedia 
Studio MX 
2004 trial 

So many apps, so little 
time. This quartet of 
power players is sure 
to make your Web site 
an eye-grabber. 



ontheDisc 

AUDIO & MUSIC 

IPodRIp 2.4.2 
Sofa 0.6fc3 



Neverwinter 
Nights demo 

This visually stunning 
role-playing game’s 
universe is enormous 
and filled with goblins, 
wolves, zombies, 
dragons, and more. 
Good luck. 



Flash MX 



trial 



FUN & GAMES 

•-0 Neverwinter Nights demo 

GRAPHICS & MULTIMEDIA 

Canvas 9 demo O 

CoverStar 1.0.8 
Directors Boards 1.1 
EXIF Viewer 2.1 
RreWorks MX 2004 trial 
Freehand MX 11 trial 
Metadata Hootenanny 1.0b1 



Canvas 9 

demo 

Deneba’s Canvas has 
earned Its reputation 
as the world’s most 
versatile graphics 
app— version 9 takes 
its many capabilities 
even further. 



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INTERFACE 

Konfabulator 1.5.2 
Ultimate Pen 1.0.1 

INTERNET & 
COMMUNICATION 

iSeek 1.0 

PRODUCTIVITY 

FastTrack Schedule 8 demo 
Now Up>to<Date & Contact 4.2.6 trial 

UTILITIES 

Data Rescue X 10.3 demo 
DiskTracker (Classic) 2.3 
DiskTracker (OS X) 2.3 
DV Backup 1.1.4 
Mactracker (Classic) 2.0.6 
Mactracker (OS X) 2.0.6 
SuperScrubber 1.1 demo 
Token Redeemer (Classic) 1.0 
Token Redeemer (OS X) 1.0 

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Prosoft Engineering: Data Rescue X 
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08 MacAWIct January 2004 



PUBUSHER Chris Coelho 
EDITOR IN CHIEF Rik MyslewskI 

EDITORIAL 

MANAGING EDITOR Jenifer Morgan 
EXECUTIVE EDITOR Cathy Lu 

SENIOR EDITORS Narasu Rebbapragada (news), Kris Fong 
ASSOCIATE EDITOR NIko Coucouvanis (reviews) 
EPONYMEDITOR Max 

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS David Biedny, Joseph O. Holmes, 
Helmut Kobler, Frank O’Connor, Angus Piildean, Ian Sammis, 
Deborah Shado^itz, Andrew Tokuda, Buz Zoller 

ART 

ART DIRECTOR Mark Rosenthal 
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Peter Marshutz 
CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER Nathan Wilson 
PHOTOGRAPHER Mark Madeo 
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Luke Thomas 

PRODUCTION 

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PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Hans Hunt 

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For All You Do... 

Thanks for all the help. 

This month, the Mac turns 20— and so does the 
dedicated community of Mac addicts that has grown 
up with it. This anniversary is the perfect time for 
each of us to thank the generous folks who guided 
us to the Macintosh way. Til start. 

My Mac life began a few days before the first Mac 
was announced. Larry Shaw, an electronics genius 
and coworker at the Exploratorium— a museum of 
science and art In San Francisco— somehow got his 
hands on a schematic drawing of the Mac. Together 
with the Exploratorium’s computer guru, Ron 
Hipschman, we pored over that document like it was 
the map to our future— which, in my case, it was. 

From the Exploratorium, I moved on to MacUser magazine, where Jeff 
Pittelkau and Stephan Somogyi patiently led me from Ignorance to true Mac 
enlightenment. 1 still remember the happy day when Jeff officially pronounced 
me a geek. I had arrived. 

At MacUser, I established friendships with members of the Mac vendor 
community such as Karl Seppala of Sonnet Technologies and Mike Mihalik of 
LaCie, who to this day are willing to drop whatever they’re doing and explain 
some arcane hardware intricacy to me. 

And, of course, there are the gazillion Apple folks whoVe helped me out 
over the years. Among them are Nathalie Welch at Apple PR, who actually 
answers my voicemails; Frank Casanova, the QuickTime wizard who once 
got me stumbling drunk in Tokyo’s Roppongi nightlife district; and the most 
unflappable human being on the planet, Keri Walker, head of Apple’s Product 
Review Loan Program. 

My thanks also to dedicated Mac civilians such as Lorene Romero, Stephen 
Henry, Jim Dickenson, Deborah Ramos, Paul Cornwall, and Susan Curry 
of California’s North Coast Mac Users Group; Tom Santos and Fred Ihde of 
Macadam, San Francisco’s most entertaining Mac store; and John Andrews of 
Happy Mac (our town’s friendliest mom ’n’ pop Mac repair shop), who lent us 
Macs forthis month’s celebration of the Mac’s 20th birthday (see page 20). 

And then there are all of you readers. I’ve learned a ton from your ideas and 
your questions, and I hope that more often than not you’ve seen your ideas 
brought to life and your questions answered within these pages. After all the 
Mac community has done for me, it’s the least i can do to reciprocate. 

Enjoy, 

K* 

comingsoon :februaiy2004 

Our editors fill you in on what they’re preparing for the next Issue of MocAddict 




staff rants 



Q: Who had the greatest influence on 
your Mac life? 



Jenifer Morgan lioness of Seville 
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 

The Bishop, CA, Lions Club. A generous schoiarship 
from the Lions Ciub aiiowed me to purchase my first 
Mac. it introduced me to opera (Bugs Bunny’s rendition 
of The Barber of Seville was my startup chime), 
and — more Importantly — impressed a “totally hot" guy In my dorm. 




H Peter Marshutz downwardly mobile 

Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 
The person who first introduced me to a Mac was my 
mother. I started playing around on her work machine 
and ended up with a new career. 

H Cathy Lu rebel without a klez 

Who had the greatest Influence on your Mac life? 
The good people at Yack.com and the loser who wrote 
the Worm virus had the biggest Influence. After using a 
PC at Yack.com for a year— and having my hard drive 
wiped clean by a virus— I learned how superior Macs are. 



NIko Coucouvanis aimless drifter 
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 
That’d be a fellow by the name of Duke Nukem. He 
helped me forget about all my flesh-and-blood friends, 
and find fun and companionship— and yes, even 
comfort— In the solitary glow of a 14-Inch Apple Multiscan display. 





Narasu Rebbapragada indebted 
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 
My parents. They bought me my first computer, 
an Apple II plus, and later, a Mac SE. Technically, I 
purchased my LC II— but I sent the bill to my parents. 



Mark Rosenthal marquis de Albany 
Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 

In descending order: C. D. ROM, E. L. Fudge, T. S. Eliot 
P. B. Jay, P. T. Barnum, K. C. and the Sunshine Band, I. 
P. Freeley, Fred Sanford, C. S. Lewis, I. M. Kneady, E. B, 
White, T. J. Maxx, B. A. Hero, L. A. Pant, M. T. Head. 0. 1. Lostit, R. U. 
TIgllsch, S. S. Titanic, N. A. Bind, and lastly, T. V. Gyde. 




Kris Fong former computerphobe, 

NOW MAC ADVOCATE 

Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 
Former MacAddlct editor Andrew Tokuda (aka Digital 
Droo) was my band-mate and convinced me to buy a 
Mac because they were the best for recording music. He then shoved 
copies of MacAddlct In my face to show me all the cool things I could 
do with It— and how weird magazine editors can be. 





Max OVERDRESSED SEVEN-YEAR-OLD 

Who had the greatest influence on your Mac life? 

Not just In my Mac life but In my entire life, that would 
be Adam Vanderhoof, a former assistant art director at 
MacAddlct who brought me to life in September of 1996 






FEATURES: Ultimate 
Hardware Guide 
We'll bring you an In-depth look at 
how to get the most from Adobe’s 
new Creative Suite. Plus, which G5 
should you buy? Is a G4 enough for 
what you need? How can you get the 
most hardware bang for your buck? 
And how do you upgrade and repair 
these bad boys? It’s all in our ultimate 
hardware guide.— Cafby 



HOWTO; Pimp Out Your Mac 
We can’t wait to see Nlko's latest 
case-mod project; He’ll show you 
how to pimp out your Mac. We’ll also 
show you how to use the Terminal 
to troubleshoot troubles instead of 
relying on unpredictable disk utilities. 
Plus; another lesson in REALbasic 
programming.— /^r/s 



REVIEWS: Adobe Creative Suite 
Creative? Sweet! That’s right; Adobe’s 
family of 800-pound graphics gorillas. 
Creative Suite, is on deck, along with 
Poser, which does one of the few 
things Adobe’s CS doesn’t; character 
modeling and animation. Plus, oUr 
gadgeteers are toting around the 
latest handhelds from Palm and 
Handspring.— A//ko 



NEWS; People, Products, 
and Media Cards 
We’re scouring the world for new 
gadgets, new games, and new newsy 
tidbits. You’ll meet the latest and 
greatest people and products from the 
Mac community, and that media-card 
round-up we promised you last month 
finally will spring to life In February. 
—Narasu 



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10 MacAidlct January 2004 







Heard any good music lately? 




The PowerWave USB Audio Interface 
& Desktop Amplifier is a powerful and 
extremely flexible computer audio tool. 
With it you can record any mic or line 
Input into your computer. Record your 
entire album collection to make CDs 
or MP3s. Hook-up a mic and musical 
instrument and turn your computer 
into a recording studio. 



But PowerWave is also an integrated 
desktop amplifier. Use it to connect any 
set of home speakers to your computer. 
PowerWave makes a great compact amp 
for your MP3 player. It even enables the 
use of Apple Pro Speakers™ with any 
USB enabled computer. Flexible input 
exceptional output and amplifier power 
in one beautiful device -PowerWave. 




PowerWave ^99 

USB Audio Interface & Amplifier 

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iCurve 



PowerBook & iBook Stand 

• Raises laptop screen to the perfect height 

• Creates room on the desktop for an 
external keyboard and mouse 



• Keeps laptop cool with max air circulation 



iTrip 



FM Transmitter for iPod 

• Play your iPod's music through any empty 
FM radio station from 87.9 to 107.9 

• iPod powered - no battery necessary 

• Fits snug to top of iPod - no messy cables 



PowerMate 

USB MultiMedia Controller Knob 

• Now in Brushed Aluminum and Black 

• Great control for iTunes or IMovie 

• Programmable for any application 

• Replaces repetitive keystrokes 



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the news of the month In bIte-size chunks 




A Nostalgic Stroll with the Cofounder of Apple Computer 




by Narasu Rebbapragada 



W hen we first asked Steve 
Wozniak for an interview, 
he politely blew us off. At 
the time, the cofounder of 
Apple Computer was sitting in his private 
box at the Shoreline Amphitheater in 
Mountain View, California, listening to a 
Neil Young concert. His eyes, however, 
were focused on the game of Tetris he 
was playing on his Nintendo Game Boy 
(original edition). 

We approached him again afterthe 
show at the VIP bar, where he was 
giving test rides on a Segway Human 
Transporter (he owns nine of them). 
Again, we didn’t get the interview, 
though we did slalom nicely through 
a set of orange cones. 

The playful, tech-obsessed 



entrepreneur finally acquiesced to 
an interview at the offices of his new 
start-up, Wheels of Zeus— check the 
acronym— which is set to launch a new 
wireless-tracking technology. Sitting 
behind a IGHz 17-inch PowerBook, he 
spoke candidly about the Mac, Steve 
Jobs, and a prank call to the Pope. 

ON THE MAC 

How many Macs have you 
used in your lifetime? 

I don’t know, 200. 

What’s your favorite 
Mac of all time? 

The [PowerBook] Duo 230, the first 
color one. It’s just small enough and 
light enough to carry anywhere, and 



12 MacAWlct January 2004 



PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF WHEELS OF ZEUS EXCEPT WOZ WITH HUMMER, BY ALAN LUCKOW 





Goes 

anywhere 




it can plug into the Internet so easily. 
Second to that would probably be the 
whole Titanium [PowerBook] series for 
looks and portability. It worked really 
well for me, but I don’t recommend it to 
anyone. It gets too easily scratched. 1 
think the aluminum PowerBook is a lot 
better, but it’s not the machine you fall 
in love with, it’s just the perfect good 
PowerBook that doesn’t get hurt. 

Is there any Mac you thought was a 
real dud? 

Some Performas seemed to me like they 
wouldn’t interest me, so I might call 
them duds. 

Which Mac was the most 
technologically important? 
Something around the Mac Plus orthe 
Mac SE, where we had the SuperDrives 
in them. {No, Woz \sn*t crazy: The 
1.44MB floppy drive in the Mac SE was 
named the SuperDrive.—Ed.) I think from 
that day on, my computer life was better. 

What’s the best computer Apple 
ever made? 

I still think the [Power Mac] 8500 was 
the best computer Apple ever made. It 
just kept lasting and lasting and working 
and working. 

What do you think of Mac OS X? 

I use OS X and I trust it, but I never got 
back to the same levels of satisfaction, 
ease of use, and shortcut workarounds 
that I had with Mac OS 9. 

ON STEVE JOBS 

When did you meet Steve jobs? 

We were introduced by a mutual friend, 
who lived a few houses down from me 
in Sunnyvale. I had actually designed 
a little computer in 1970— five years 
before the Altair [8800] build-it-yourself 
kit computers— with a friend a few 
houses down. My friend said, “I’ve 
got to call Steve Jobs over because 
you two have something in common: 
You’re interested in electronics and 
you both are kind of pranksters,” so he 
introduced us. That was Bill Fernandez. 
He was Apple’s third employee. His 
mother is [Apple’s Chief Software 

continued on p.l4 



FACTS 

ABOUT 
WOZ 

¥ 

STOPPED ON SECWAY 

Last summer, a motorcycle cop told 
Woz he couldn’t continue to ride 
across San Francisco’s Golden Gate 
Bridge on a Segway. 

DIAL-A-JOKE PIONEER 

Woz says he started the first 
telephone dial-a-joke service in the 
San Francisco Bay Area. One of the 
numbers he used was 255-6666, 
which is one of the reasons the 
Apple was priced at $666.66. 

BACKINTHEU.S.S.R. 

Woz says he funded the first 
televised satellite broadcast 
between the Soviet Union and the 
United States in the early 1980s. 

BLACKLISTED 

Woz had been in Nintendo Power 
Magazine's High Score section so 
many times with his Tetris high 
score, that the magazine refused to 
print his name again— so he sent it 
in spelled backwards. 

FAVORITE SONG 

Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer.” 

WHY iTUNES DEMOS FEATURE 
SO MUCH BOB DYLAN 

When jobs and Wozniak started 
Apple, they decided Bob Dylan 
wrote some of the most important 
music of their generation. 

FAVORITE MOVIE 

It’s a toss-up between The Matrix 
and The Lord of the Rings: The 
Two Towers. 

EMAIL PREFERENCE 

Woz prefers Eudora to Mail because 
of its programmable button bar 
and AppleScriptability. 





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continued from p.l3 

Technology Officer] Avie Tevanian's 
secretary. (Bambi Fernandez currently 
supports Software Engineering Vice 
President Bud Tribble and Senior Vice 
President Bertrand Serlet, in addition 
to Tevanion—Ed.) 

What is Jobs like? 

He always seems to make the most 
sense. He’s clearly thought out. He’s 
looking at the things that are important 
and not shadowed by all sorts of little 
tidbits that aren’t as important. 



APPLE LAUNCHES iTUNES 
FOR WINDOWS 

Top 10 Reasons Why Mac Users Should Care 

H ere’s why you Mac addicts should care that Apple announced iTunes and 
iTunes Music Store for Windows 2000 and Windows XP in October 2003. 

MacAddict editors got to see the live Sarah McLachlan concert that 
culminated the special event (and you should be happy for us). 

0 U2’s Bono, live from Dublin on iChat AV, spewed accolades about iTunes 
and said, “That’s why I’m here to kiss corporate ass.” 



ON THE POPE 

Is it true that you phoned the Pope? 
It was my junior year of college at 
Berkeley. Steve and I had stumbled 
on howto build little blue boxes [tone 
generators that enabled free— and 
illegal— phone calls], so we could kind 
of start dialing all over the world.... 

I called Italy and asked for the Rome 
operator and asked for the Vatican 
operator and got there. I said, “This is 
Henry Kissinger and I’d like to speak to 
the Pope. I’m with Richard Nixon. We’re 
at the summit in Moscow.”...They put 
on the bishop who was going to be a 
translator and he said he had just talked 
to Henry Kissinger. Oops. 

So you did this with Steve Jobs? 
Yeah, he’d just drive up from Los Altos 
and visit the dorm room. 

ON ITUNES 

What do you think has been 
the most significant recent 
Apple technology? 
iTunes really did it well. iPhoto is equally 
significant but I hold something against 
It. It threw away all my photos once. 

What about the iTunes Music Store? 
It’s very well done but totally misses 
the mark for me. I write down everyday 
between 1 and 10 songs and I’ve got 
to find these songs. There are only 
two songs that I heard on the radio 
that I found on Apple’s store. One was 
Donovan’s “Catch the Wind” and one 
was Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sit Down Young 
Stranger.” I think it’s a good direction. 
[Music] is a big part of your life. I believe 
In the digital hub representation of what 
we’re using the computer for. 



0 Bono renamed himself IBono for the day. 

0 Your PC friends can use iTunes Music Store gift certificates to give you $20 
to $200 toward the purchase of new tunes. (So can your Mac friends.) 

0 Ditto on the Allowance feature for gifting you $20 to $200 monthly. 

0 The chanceto nab the PC market gave Apple the incentive to bump up 
music content to 400,000 tunes, sign 200 independent labels to contribute 
music, and strike a deal with Audible.com for exclusive rights to 5,000 
audio books. 

0 It gives the 25 million AOL users a reason to live, and the chance to buy 
iTunes Music Store tunes ’n’ books directly from the AOL Music page. 

0 You can watch your Coke-or-die friends dry heave while buying bottles of 
Pepsi for the 1 in 3 chance of winning a free song on iTunes Music Store. 
(Apple and Pepsi struck a deal where Pepsi is giving away 100 million 
iTunes songs on the inside of bottle caps.) 

0 Users can kiss Microsoft’s proprietary WMA format goodbye. Now that they 
can freely burn Apple ITunes high-quality AAC format, they don’t need it. 

O Because now that Apple makes PC software, it’s safe to go to Hell. It has 
finally frozen over. 




Yes, this is iTunes for Windows. Yes, you should give a damn. 



14 MacAddict January 2004 







WHAT'S INSIDE A 
SUPERCOMPUTER? 



Tech Tidbits on the Virginia Tech G5 Cluster 



A S we reported last month {Get Info, Dec/03, pl3), 
Virginia Tech has built the largest-ever Mac-based 
supercomputer cluster out of 1,100 Dual 2GHz Power 
Mac G5s, each with 4GB of RAM. Here are some little- 
known facts about what it took to build it.— A/a/? Graham 



INSIDE THE G5 SUPERCOMPUTER 

4.4TB RAM-thaTs 37,795,712,205 times more than 
the original Mac (See “A Celebration: 20 Years of 
Macintosh,” p20.) 

176TB disk space-that’s 12,094,627,906 times 
more than the original Mac 
17.6 trillion operations per second theoretical 
peak performance 



CHA-CHING 

^ The total budget was $5.2 million. 

^ The total cost of the G5s was nearly $2.75 million— 
that’s $2,493 per Mac. (They must have gotten a 
discount for foregoing 1,100 mice and keyboards.) 



CONSTRUCTION 

The cluster took eight weeks to build. 

^ Engineers spent more than six weeks on software. 
Over 150 volunteers helped unload and rack the G5s. 



HOT, HOT, HOT 

The Liebert’s Extreme Density rack-mounted 
air-cooling system uses 1,000 pounds of R-134a 
refrigerant for efficient cooling. 

^ An addition cooling system pumps 1,500 gallons of 
chilled water per minute to cool down the heated air 
generated by the Liebert system. 



POWER 

^ The cluster and its cooling system uses 1.5 megawatts 
of power— that’s enough to power 3,000 homes. 

^ Each machine will peak at 725W. 

The total cluster peaks at more than 800 kW at 
full load. 



WEIGHT 

The G5s alone weigh more than 22 tons. Add the 
racks to which they’re mounted and the rack- 
mounted cooling system, and the cluster weighs in 
at more than 36 tons— that’s equal to more than 200 
Shaquille O’Neals. 



CABLES 

^ The cluster uses over four miles of Infiniband cables 
and over five miles of Cat 5e Ethernet cables. 



Carries 

anything. 




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DROOLWORTHY 



Sexy Stuff We Can’t Wait to Get Our Mitts On 




in Style 

Hitch your iPod to Altec Lansing's 
inMotion Portable iPod Speakers ($149, 
www.store.apple.com), currently available 
only at Apple Stores. This battery-powered 
system charges your iPod either via its 
dock or its FireWire connector, allows you 
to sync data with your Mac, and uses the 
iPod's alarm (if enabled) to double as an 
alarm clock. 



Listen 



4- Phone 
in Style 

Sony Ericsson’s Z600 (price TBA, 
www.sonyericsson.com) is a 
tri-band GSM/GPRS phone with 
stylish snap-on covers. Take photos 
with its built-in digital camera, and 
then wirelessly send them to your 
Mac via Bluetooth. Musicians in the 
house will like the Z600’s four-track 
music creation tool for composing 
polyphonic ringtones. The Z600 
should be out by the end of the 2003. 



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SPEAKER PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK MAOEO PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF SONY ERICSSON 








NEW stuff 



Fits 

everyone 



NEW PROSUMER CAMCORDER 

What It Is; This upgrade to the popular Sony VX2000 
improves shot quality in low light and offers better color 
fidelity, 16:9 widescreen recording, as well as 12x 
optical and 48x digital zooms. 

Why lt*s cool: This high-end prosumer camera is buff 
enough to shoot your next Sundance sleeper. 

NEW INKJET INKS 

What it is: Pantone is launching a series of ink cartridges, 
paper, and drivers based on its industry-leading color 
definition system. The products will initially work with 
a handful of professional and prosumer desktop Epson 
printers, with support for more Epson and non-Epson 
printers to follow in 2004. Epson is not selling, endorsing, 
or supporting the Pantone inks as of press time. 

Why It’s cool: Pantone is attempting to break the 
monopoly printer companies have on high-priced inks. 
Epson and others are sure to balk. 

MP3 PLAYER UNDER $50 

What it Is: These USB flash drives double as MP3 players. 
They support MP3 (and WMA) files and come with a five- 
preset EQ. Mac users can transfer music to and from the 
player by dragging and dropping tunes in the Finder. The 
SAIOO doesn’t support iTunes. 

Why It’s cool: You can’t beat the price— let’s hope it’s a 
quality product. 

BRIGHT LIGHT! BRIGHT LIGHT! 

What it Is: With eight white-light LEDs, two brightness 
settings, and a flexible neck, this USB light shines bright. 
Why It’s cool; We’re suckers for gadgets— especially ones 
that can light up those dark ports under your desk. 

FTP BY EMAIL 

What It Is: Creo’s Token system lets you use email to 
share large files that would normally require upload to an 
FTP site. Token Creator bundles files and sends them as 
an email that’s only a few kilobytes in size (a token). The 
email recipient uses the free Token Redeemer to open the 
Token, which then grabs the files from your hard drive. 
Why It’s cool: It’s the cheapy way to send big files without 
setting up an FTP server. Creo also offers a server edition. 

CHEAP INKJET 

What It is: This low-priced USB inkjet prints at an 
optimized 5760 by 1440 dpi, has four individual ink 
cartridges, and prints standard business paper sizes as 
well as 8-by-lO-inch and 4-by-6-inch photo sizes. Only 
the 4-by-6-inch size has a borderless option. 

Why it’s cool: Although Epson’s Stylus C44 is about $20 
cheaper, it doesn’t have the Stylus C64’s individual ink 
cartridges or borderless 4-by-6-inch printing. 




$3,000 street 

Available: December 2003 

Sony 



www.sony.com 





$251 to $605 (starter kit), 
$63 to $100 (individual ink 
cartridges) 



Available: November 2003 
Pantone 

www.pantone.com 




$49 (64MB), $79.99 
(128MB), $TBA (256MB) 
Available: November 2003 
Auvi 

www.auviwor1d.com 




$49 (single user), $595 



(server edition) 
Available: Now 
Creo 

www.creo.com 




$59 



Available: Now 
Epson America 
www.epson.com 





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TOURNAMENT 2004 

Straight from the 

Mouths of Developers c - 



HOVEKRAfTS These skfm the ground, 
Rre lasers, and have rotors that work 
like human-munchtng lawnmowers* 
Death from above* These 
can also hover, just at a higher altitude* 
AfffllORED lAlfICS When you absolutely 
must dear everyone fn the room. 



JEEFS For the Halo fans: 

There’s room for a gunner (on the 
back), a passenger, and a driver. 
MOU BfTEQ aUK TURRETS 
These keep the kids off your lawn. 
SPACESHIPS For assault maps with 
deep-space dogfightlng* 



T his third incarnation of the famous 
first-person shooter series adds 
a new game mode called Onslaught, 
plus enhanced weapons and kick-ass 
vehicles, while reviving the original 
game's Assault mode and sniper rifle. 
We talked to MacSoft's Al Schilling 
and Epic Games* Ryan Gordon forthe 
scoop.— A//? 

Describe Onslaught. 

AS: (n Onslaught, there are two bases 
separated by multiple nodes, which are 
connected by lines that change color. 

If your team controls two adjoining 
nodes, the line changes to your team's 
color. You work your way across 
the map to get a node of your color 
connected to the enemy base, [which 
you then] attack and destroy to win the 
game. By nature, Onslaught requires 
very large maps. You may respawn a 
fair distance from where the action 
Is. This is where the new vehicles 
come into play. They get you back to 
the action quickly and with a lot of 
firepower. (See “Killer Vehicles," right.) 

What’s new in multiplayer? 

AS: Onslaught and the return of 
Assault [game mode], which was 
absent from UT 2003 but makes a 
triumphant return in UT 2004. 



Unreal Tournament 2004’s got new 
weapons, new vehicles, a new game 
model, and did we mention new vehicles? 

flying over your head. Plus, there are 
new weapons that alter the strategy. 
You can leave spider mines in strategic 
places that will ambush a player when 
he stumbles upon them. 

What’s new in weapons? 

AS: UT 2004 adds dual assault rifles 
along with redone weapon models. 

Is there a level editor in the Mac 
version? 

AS: No. {That*s not what we wanted to 
hear, AL—Ed.) 

What kind of Mac will we need? 

RG: This time around, the CPU is 
going to be more important than the 
video card, since the vehicle physics 
are computationally expensive. The 
graphics aren't going to take such 
a dramatic leap forward as they did 
between UTl and UT2003 (translation: 
The faster your Mac, the better —Ed.). 



Unreal Tournament 2004's new 
wheels make for a deadly joyride. 



How is gameplay different 
in UT2004? 

RG: If you’re playing Onslaught or 
Assault, you need to take into account 
that your opponent can be coming 



Freeze or i'll shoot! I’ll shoot anyway. 

at you with anything from an assault 
rifle to an armored tank. Instead of 
running toward you, they might be 



KILLER VEHICLES 



Unreal 

Tournament 2004 



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SHAREWARE PICK OF THE 

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CAMCORDER 



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D V Backup turns your digital camcorder (DV or Digitals) 
into an affordable tape backup system, letting you 
archive up to 15GB of data onto a single one-hour DV tape. 

Just drag your files or folders to DV Backup's Table Of Contents 
window and choose how much error protection and data compression 
you want. Through the magic of FireWire, DV Backup controls your 
camcorder's buttons to make automatic backups .—An drew Tokuda 

FIVE TIPS FOR USING 
FINAL SCRATCH 

From International Mega-DJ Paul Van Dyk 

T oyko. London. New York. Ibiza. Miami. One of the best-known Djs the world over, 
Paul Van Dyk, has gone digital. He spins electronic dance music using a 1.24GHz 
PowerBook G4 with Final Scratch and Logic Audio. Here's how this Mac addict uses Final 
Scratch to get big sound in the world's biggest clubs.— A//? 



THE SPICED- UP SYSTEM 



Van Dyk Installed a 60GB hard drive on his PowerBook G4 and carries an external 80GB 
FireWire with additional music on it. On average, he brings about 40GB of music to a set. 



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When a Dj is spinning live, finding records fast is everything, 
Rather than sort through hundreds of cryptically 
named files. Van Dyk uses Final Scratch's virtual 
Record Boxes to organize tracks by style. **\ have 
one box where I put new things, then 1 have one 
box with a few classics," says Van Dyk, who uses 
nine virtual record boxes. 



NO ON MP3 



Regarding MP3s, Van Dyk says, “I think the sound 
is pretty shady.” Digital audio that sounds good 
on your home stereo can sound like crap on the 
mammoth sound systems in clubs. 




DJ Paul Van Dyk 
reveals five tips on 
spinning digitally 
with a PowerBook 
and Final Scratch. 



YES ON HI-RES AIFF 



Van Dyk “spins" high-quality 16-bit or 24-bit 
AIFF files from his hard drive during live shows. 
When he finds CD tracks he likes, he rips them 
to his hard drive and remasters them so the 
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From amazing products to ones that never 
should have seen the light of day, raging 
successes to near-death experiences, the 
last 20 years have been a long and 
joyous— and bumpy— ride. J 



BY Emory Christensen 

Mac photography by Mark Madeo 



W hen did the first CD player arrive in the ^ 
U.S. of A.? What year did digital cell 
phones grace our shores? How long ago ^H 
did the first kernels of microwave popcorn 
torment hapless coworkers with their seductiv^ 
scent? You probably don’t know— though 
Jeopardy \mk\QS will immediately answer 198M 
1990, and 1946, respectively. But it doesn’t 
matter. Although all of these were technologies 
revolutions at the time, they quickly became 
relatively mundane commodities. 

The Macintosh is different. Mavbe it’s the :■ 
convoluted corporate soap opera behind the Jj| 
computer. Orlerhaps it’s a subliminal commas 
in the Mac staKup30uncl.^Lwhatev^rJh^ 9 
reason, the Mac has carved a special place 9 
for itself in pop culture. And in our hearts. 9 
And now the Mac has turned 20— almost M 
old enough to drink without a fake ID. To . m 
celebrate, we put together a visual history of 1 
the Mac, commemorating both good times and J 
bad— and there have been plenty of both. For j 
many of you Mac addicts, here’s a trip down M 
memory (or amnesia) lane. For the rest of you, 1 
here’s the low-down on the up-and-down, | 
often-insane history of the world’s greatest ^ 

personal computer. 



A CELEBRATION 




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January 2004 MacAJdIct 21 




O n January 24, 1984, Apple gave birth to the Mac— and to a 
20-year legacy of making the best damned personal computers 
on the planet. The Mac and its killer graphical user interface— or 
GUI, pronounced "gooey "—grew out of a previous 
Apple computer named the Lisa, which was the Mac 
equivalent of the older, uglier, unmarried sibling 
nobody likes to talk about. Steve Jobs borrowed 
(some nonbelievers would say stole] concepts such 
as the GUI and the mouse from the Xerox PARC 
research facility's visionary Alto computer. These 
concepts ended up in the failed Lisa project— and 
then in the Macintosh. 

And like any family— especially one with a precocious child— Apple 
had its share of dysfunctional fun. During the run-up to the Mac's 
unveiling. Jobs enticed John Sculley to leave Pepsi-Cola and become 
Apple's president and CEO (big mistake, Steve]. Sculley and Jobs 



clashed almost immediately. Rumor has it that Jobs thought Sculley 
didn't understand the computer industry, and that Sculley thought 
Jobs was a loose cannon— turns out they were both right. The 

fallout? Apple's board sided with Sculley, and Jobs 
left Apple in mid-1985 to start another computer 
company called NeXT. And you thought yourfamily 
get-togethers were interesting. 

In the end, however, things didn't turn out so pretty 
for Sculley. In 1985, he presided over large layoffs 
(over 1,000 employees] and oversaw the company's 
first quarterly loss. He also signed an ill-conceived 
deal with Bill Gates in which he licensed the Mac's look 
and feel for Windows 1.0. Unfortunately, a clause in the contract 
also gave Microsoft the go-ahead to use pretty much any look-and- 
feel elements in all of its future programs, later scuttling an Apple 
copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft. Damn. 





:2004 



THE MAC THAT SAYS IT ALL 

iNacintosh [1984 to 1985) 

I Apple introduced the world to the original 
k Macintosh (now known as the Mac 128K) 

■ during the famous 1984 Super Bowl 

■ commercial directed by Ridley Scott that 

H featured a woman in running shorts smashing 
K a Big Brotheresque control screen with a 
sledgehammer. The Mac 128K featured an 
8MHz Motorola 68000 processor, a 512- 
by-342-pixel monochrome display, and 
^ then-revolutionary 3.5-inch 400K disk 
■| drive— and don't laugh: That was 40K more 
storage than the then-de rigueur 5.25- 
inch floppies. But what made the original 
. Mac truly revolutionary was its graphical 
user interface and its mouse. 

Why It Mattered: This was the machine 
that started it all, the mother of all Macs. 
Hp Some of its design concepts— such as the 
niouse and the graphical user interface— 
■P are present in every personal computer sold 
” today. Properly sealed, the 128K case still 
makes a great fish tank. 








PATRICK STEWART PHOTOGRAPH ©COR8IS KIRA, JOBS AND SCUUEY PHOTOGRAPH ©ED KASHl/CORBIS 



I SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS 







Macintosh Plus (1986 to 1990) 

The Mac Plus was the first expandable 
Mac. You could stuff it with up to 4MB 
of RAM (hey, it was 1986— give ’em a 
break), and it was the first Mac to feature 
a SCSI port. No Apple Desktop Bus 



THE WORLD OF TECUNOIOGV 



THE WORLD 



Old You Know? 

Steve Jobs flew a skull-and-crossbones 
flag over the Macintosh project 
building— a symbol of a rebellion againsi 
the idea that computers were only for the 
technically savvy. As jobs 
said at the time: “It’s bettei 
to be a pirate than [to] join 
W the Navy." 



If you’re serious about learning Apple history, vlsitwww.apple-history.com, which 
includes a capsule chronicle of Apple’s corporate shenanigans, along with specs for 
every Mac ever built. Also check out the cavalcade of Macs in Mactracker, which you 
can find on this month’s Disc or at www.mactracker.ca. 



H«iiiti»hll(1907tol990) 

While the original Mac was criticized for 
its lack of expandability, the Macintosh 
il kicked serious expansion butt, with 
six NuBus expansion slots and eight 
RAM slots (for up to 20MB of RAM). 

The Macintosh II featured a 16MHz 
68020 processor (with optional math 
coprocessor), plus it was the first 
Mac able to display color— and it was 
those color capabilities more than its 
expandability that made it the cool kid 
on the block. 



THE STINKER 

Macintosh Office 
(1985 in theory) 

Uh, it seemed like a good idea at the 
time. Create a system that included 
networking, a laser printer, and a file 
server, and then package it for office use. 
What could go wrong? First, the file server 
never shipped. Second, the commercial 
to promote the product was a stinker: 
Called Lemmings, it featured a line of 
blindfolded 
businesspeople 
marching off a 
cliff. Likening 
potential 
customers 
to suicidal 
mammals 
probably wasn’t 
the best sales 



Macintosh system software 
progressed from System 1.0 to 
System 4.2 during this time. 

-> Microsoft, an early and active 
Macintosh software developer (among 
otherthings), released Word, Chart, 
and BASIC forthe Mac in 1984. It 
released Excel In 1985, to the 
excitement of spreadsheet 
junkies everywhere. 

^ In late 1985, Sculley signed 
an agreement with Microsoft 
to allow Mac technology to be 
used in Windows 1.0, which 
was a steaming pile of goat 
custards compared to the Mac’s 
system software. 

in 1987, HyperCard (Apple’s 
stack-based programming 



utility) made its way onto the scene, 
allowing your average joe to create 
powerful applications without having 
to learn Pascal. Classic example: the 
exploration game, Myst. 

In 1987, Steve Jobs bought Pixar 
for $10 million from George Lucas. Not 
a bad investment In retrospect. 



Cyan’s Myst 



IBM was pushing Its own personal 
computers (which debuted in 1981), 
spurred in part by the success of the 
Apple II. In 1980, believe it or not, 
Apple held 50 percent of the personal 
computer market. 

Grolier’s Electronic Encyclopedia, 
the first general-interest CD-ROM, 
appeared In 1985. The encyclopedia, 
at nine million words, took up only 12 
percent of the CD’s available space. 

In 1986, the first RISC-based 
(reduced instruction set computing) 
workstations found their way out of 



Capt. Picard 



In 1984, doctors transplanted a 
baboon heart into 15-day-old Baby Fae, 
extending her life by only 21 days. 

Space shuttle Challenger exploded 
shortly after liftoff in early 1986. The 
Chernobyl nuclear power plant 
exploded just a few months later. 

Star Trek: The Next 
Generation debuted in 1987. 

•> 1988 was a sad year for 
physics geeks, and not just 
because of their lack of dating 
options; Richard Feynman, 



RlSCchii 



IBM’s labs and into the market. (RISC is 
the power behind PowerPC chips.) 

■> Intel Introduced the 32-bit 80386 
processor in 1986. 

•> In 1988, a worm written by 23-year- 
old Robert Morris infected ARPANET— 
the precursor to today’s Internet. Can’t 
blame Microsoft security holes for 
that— at least not with a straight face. 



renowned physics lecturer and 
raconteur, died. 



This may (or may not) make you feel 
old: Today’s college freshmen were born 
during this era. 



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The original Macintosh shipped with 128KB of RAM (that’s right, KB not MB), which was mighty slim even by 1984 standards. The Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 ships 
with 512MB of memory— the equivalent of 524,288KB. Amount of increase: 4,096 times greater. Wowzers! 









i98Jii 



THE HRST GOLDEN AGE 



A fter a legendary labor and birthr 

Apple— and the Mac— entered its first 
golden age, still high off the Mac ll's 
success and buoyed by the introduction of 
the dismal Windows 1 .0. Apple also played a 
vital role in launching the desktop publishing 
revolution with the LaserWriter— and a little 
help from Aldus PageMaker. Now anyone 
could cram 23 flashy fonts onto a garage-sale 
flyer and print out a hundred copies. During 
this period Apple produced some legendary 
Macs, while the rest of the computer industry 
struggled to keep up. Apple was living a 
sweet, sweet dream. 

But by 1991, Apple found itself facing a 
powerful group of competing technologies and 
business realities. The company (with Sculley 
still at the helm] faced a market increasingly 
dominated by PC clones, and Microsoft made 
things worse by releasing Windows 3.0 on 
May 22, 1990. Sure, Windows 3.0 sucked in 
comparison to die Mac OS (still does], but it 
was usable— and more importantly, it ran on 
a variety of hardware. Apple, on the other 
hand, was the only company making Macs, 
which reinforced its reputation for not 
playing nicely with the rest of the computing 
world. Apple's opportunity to dominate the 
computer market had passed, and Microsoft, 
IBM, and an army of clones would eventually 
push the Mac's market share to single-digit 
percentages. The suits had overtaken the 
Apple rebels. 

Despite its troubles at the end of this 
golden age, Apple made some smart 
decisions. Apple teamed up with IBM and 
Motorola to form the AIM alliance (Apple, 
IBM, and Motorola]. One mission of AIM was 
to produce RISC chips powerful enough to eat 
the competition for breakfast— with room for 
coffee and a hagel. This alliance went on to 
produce the PowerPC processor line, which 
is still going strong today; The G5 is the 
fifth-generation chip in that family. 




THEMACTHATSAYSITAa 

Macintosh SE/30 (1989 to 1990) 

Here’s the workhorse of the original all-in-one Macs. Equipped with a 
68030 processor, the SE/30 was the first compact Mac with an expansion 
slot and a built-in hard drive, and the first to support more than 4MB of 
RAM. Although touted as a 32-bit computer, the SE/30 ROMs were 
not 32-bit c/eon—that is, they still used some 24-bit code and required 
a software patch to be fully 32- bit compliant and thus access more 
than 8MB of RAM. With the patch, the SE/30 could access up to 
I2SMBofRAM. 

-’f i^jttered: The SE/30 represented Apple at its best. During these 
years, Apple produced some of the most innovative, long-lasting, and 
well-designed machines it ever created. Even today the SE/30 can pull its 
weight; With the proper Ethernet expansion card and the right flavor of 
Unix or Linux (such as NetBSD, Debian Linux, or MacMinix], an SE/30 is 
still a capable small-scale Web server. Long-time Mac heads get a little 



misty-eyed when the SE/30 is mentioned. Sniff. 



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THEKEEPERS 

Macintosh llci (1989 to 1993) 

The lid was a fast, expandable, color- 
capable Mac— and the first 32-bit clean 
Mac. It also had an optional 32K L2 
cache for added oomph. In a Mac II first, 
the llci featured 
: onboard video. 
;Whi!e snappy, this 
feature gobbled 
up valuable RAM 

and cramped the llci*s 

performance. Still, because of 
its solid design and expandability, the 
llci became a publishing-house fixture, 
providing long and loyal service. 

PowerBook 170 (1991 to 19921 

The 170 was one of the first three 
PowerBooks Apple introduced. Where 
Apple got it all wrong with the Portable 
(see below), it got just about everything 
right with the PowerBooks. This was 
apparent especially in the keyboards 
(set back so as to provide a wrist rest) 
and built-in trackballs^features not 
found in PL competitors. 

At $4,600, the 170 was # 5 
king of the original ! 

line and featured an ■ 

active-matrix display, 
a 25MHz Motorola 
68030 processor, 

THESTINKER 

Macintosh Portable (1989 to 1991) 

This was Apple’s first— and worst- 
attempt at a portable Mac. Nicknamed 
the Luggable, the Portable cost $6,500, 
wasn’t expandable, was based on a 
wimpy 8MHz 68000 processor (five 
years old and counting at the time), and 
weighed nearly 16 pounds. You would 
have been better off carrying an SE/30 
and finding an outlet— at 19.5 pounds, 
it didn’t weigh much more. Also, the 
Luggable’s screen wasn’t backlit, so you 
needed eagle eyes. Needless to say, the 
Macintosh Portable didn’t go far— quite 
literally, since 
could hardly 
‘ r-BKm lift it— but it did 

blaze the trail for 

the PowerBook 
line. 







SOFTWARE OEVELOPMENTS 



In 1989, NeXT (with Steve Jobs at 
the helm) showed off its new operating 
system, NeXTStep, which would 
eventually become the heart of Mac 
OSX. 

SimCitymade 
its first appearance 
in 1989— and the 
world lost a year of 
productivity. 

In 1990, Adobe 
shipped Photoshop 
1.0 for the Mac. 

Apple released 
System 7 in 1990 

in answer to Windows 3.0. System 7 
featured a new interface, introduced 




TrueType fonts, and used full-time 
multitasking— finally, it could run 
several programs at once, at all times. 
-> In 1991, Apple worked with IBM 
on the Pink project, 
a Mac-like operating 
system designed 
to run on both Macs 
and PCs. The object- 
oriented Pink was spun 
off asTaligent in 1992, 
where it morphed 
into a set of object- 
oriented programming 
City frameworks. In 1998, 

IBM reabsorbed the 
technology, using it in a variety of 
developer tools. 



THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY 



^ In 1989, Motorola announced the 
68040 microprocessor (which didn’t 
ship until 1990)— the last in the 680x0 
processor line. 

' Time and Warner Brothers merged 
in 1989. The company would later 
merge with AOL and Netscape. 

Also in 1989, Drs. Pons and 
Fleischmann trumped up cold fusion. 

In 1990, NASA sent the Hubble 
space telescope into orbit. 



Also in 1990, the first Web browser 
(called WorldWideWeb) appeared— no 
porn sites yet, though. 




THE WORLD 



The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, 
and by 1991 the Soviet Union had 
largely collapsed. 

Dances With l44?/ves— released in 
1990— proved that Kevin Costner could 
carry a nonbaseball acting role. Bearing 
his butt didn’t hurt the movie either. 

^ Pete Rose was 
banned from baseball 
in 1991 for gambling on 
games as the otherwise- 
great game turned 100. 

The first Gulf War 
erupted In early 1991. 



In 1991, scientists launched the 
Biosphere II research facility— the biggest 
missed opportunity fora reality-TV show. 




Did You Know? 

Rumor has it that Apple named the system 
sound Sosumi (which first appeared in 
System 7) for a potential lawsuit. Apple 
Records (the Beatles* record label) sued 
Apple Computer for bundling a microphone 
with the Mac llsi and LC, and thereby- 
according to the litigious Brits— turning 
Apple Computer into a “music production 
company” and infringing on Apple Records’ 
name. Apple Records accepted a $27 million 
settlement to drop the case. 



QaiiifAM During this time, TV made two of its most 

vviilTBIu Il66w Ill6 dlilipSOriS important pop-culture contributions: the phrase 
"D’oh!” and a show about nothing. The Simpsons debuted in 1989 after a couple of years as 
a series of shorts on the Tracy Ullman Show. A year later, The Seinfeld Chronicles—iBter just 
5e/n/e/d— aired. People never looked at a donut or ordered their soup quite the same way again. 



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The original Mac shipped with a 400KB floppy-disk drive. The Dual 2GHz Power 
Mac ships with a 160GB hard drive. Amount of increase: 471,859 times larger. 





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CRACKS & FOUNDATION 



T he squeamish among you may want to consider skipping ahead 
a few pages, because this era ain't pretty. Apple entered a 
troubled time in which it negated every killer product (such 
as the Power Macintosh 8100] with several crappy Performas 
sold through Sears. Performas were meant to be 
low-cost home multimedia Macs, and in 1995, Apple 
introduced more than 30 different models in a 
run-up to the Great Death Spiral of 1996. 

Like those Performas, CEO John Sculley was 
not performing well. In mid-1993, Apple's board 
relieved him of his position, installing Michael 
Spindler (Apple's COO at the time] as the company's 
new head. Unfortunately, Spindler fared no better. 

Although he shepherded Apple through the transition from 680x0 
to PowerPC processors (keeping Apple in the performance game], 
he also took the bold (but tardy] plunge into licensing the Mac OS to 
clone makers. In 1995, Power Computing released the first official 



Mac clones— the Power line— and other clonemakers, such as Umax, 
Motorola, and DayStar, soon followed. Unfortunately, the clones 
ended up siphoning sales from Apple instead of increasing the Mac's 
market share. Bad plan. 

By late 1995, Apple started the most disastrous 
plunge in its history. It couldn't build Macs fast enough 
(by mid-1995, the company had over $1 billion in back 
orders]— and if you can't build 'em, you can't sell 'em. 
Apple was also pushing low-margin Performas over 
mid-range Power Macs, so it made very little money 
on the computers that it could build. 

In August of 1995, Microsoft released Windows 
95, which still sucked, but (unfortunately for Apple] 
sucked less than Windows 3.1. Although Windows 95 was still not 
on par with System 7.5 in terms of ease-of-use, the general public 
considered it good enough. Apple's operating-system advantage 
was gone. 





Perforaio (320CD (1995 to 1997) 

The Performa 6320CD was the last in a litter of doggies 6200 and 6300 models had several problems, including 
that exposed Apple’s inability to impose sanity on its g flaky motherboard and bad ROMs. This tragic era 

product line. It was one of a baker’s dozen of Performa ended with the Performa 6360, which had a redesigned 

6200 3nd 6300 rnodBls r6l6dS6d in 1995, Gsch moth 6 rbo 3 rd with PCI slots. 

differentiated only by hard-drive size and minor speed why It Mattered: The Performa 6320C0 was symbolic 

bumps. Early 6200s were based on a 75MHz PowerPC of Apple’s strategic boo-boo: emphasizing volume 
603 processor— the slowest 603-based Mac ever. The over margins. The 6320CD also characterized Apple’s 

6260CD, 6290CD, 6300CD, and 6310CD each had a Byzantine product names, which confused the hell out 

lOOMHz 603e; the 6320CD ran at 120MHz. The Performa of even the most devoted Mac addicts. 



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THE KEEPER 

Power Macintosh 8100 
(1994 to 1995) 

One of the three first* generation Power 
Macs (which included the 6100 and 
7100), the 8100 was based on the 
PowerPC 601— the first Macs that used 
the new RISC-based 
PowerPC chip. These 
Macs represented a huge, 
3nd sometimes painful, 
transition. Because the 
chip was so different from 
previous 680x0 chips, 
older software had to run 
in an emulation mode, 
which sometimes made 
it run slower than it would on 
older machines. Once developers made 
their software PowerPC-native, however, it 
screamed. The PowerPC line is still going 
strong, G5 stands for generation five; the 
PowerPC 601 was the first-generation 
design and could be called the Gl. 



THE STINKERS 

Macintosh TV (1993 to 19941 

The Macintosh TV was one of the oddest 
Macs ever sold— and one of the few 
all-black Macs Apple ever produced. The 
Macintosh TV— essentially a black LC 
520— had one standout feature: It came 
cable-ready with a built-in TV-tuner card. 
As it turned out, people weren’t ready to 
watch TV on a Mac, and Apple sold few 
Macintosh TVs— only 10,000 were built. 

Newton (1993 to 1998) 

Newton was Apple’s first ^attempt at a 
PDA. Main problem: Its handwriting 
recognition was abysmal. So bad, 
in fact, that it was lampooned in 
Doonesbury— and in an episode of The 
SimpsonSy the Newton misinterpreted 
“beat up Martin” as “eat up . 
Martha.” Newton signified 
the shortsightedness of " 

Apple’s management, - 

which pushed the device 
into the world before f 

it was ready. Had it I 

waited until it fixed the ’ ' 

Newton’s problems, , ^ 

Apple may have been 
at the forefront of the PDA 
market from the beginning. 



SOFTlilARE DEVELOPMENTS 



Although released years earlier in 
1990, System 7 continued to dominate. 
The only major change was the jump 
from System 7.1 to System 7.5 in 
1994, which added features such as 
WIndowShade and Stickles. It was also 
the first Mac OS distributed on CD-ROM 
as well as floppy disks. 

^ In 1993, Apple introduced eWorld— 
Its AOL-like online services. eWorld 
garnered a loyal-but-small following. 

Apple announced the Copland project 
in 1994. Intended as a middle ground 
between System 7 and a fully modern 
operating system, Copland never made 
it out of the lab. Parts of it, though, such 




A Tribute to eWorld 

as a redesigned Finder, the HFS Extended 
(aka HFS-h) file system, and Open 
Transport, made it into Mac OS 8 and later. 

In 1995, Sun Microsystems 
announced the Java programming 
language— not an Apple innovation, 
but near and dear to the hearts of Mac 
OS X developers. 



THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY 



The Information Superhighway 
concept entered public consciousness 
in 1993— for better or worse- 
appearing on the April 
12, 1993, cover of Time 
as “The Info Highway.” 

Al Gore got credit for 
popularizing the phrase 
in a September 1994 
speech— but not for 
inventing the Internet 
(which he never claimed he did, 
by the way). 

Microsoft released Windows NT 
(version 3.1) in 1993, which ran on 




Microsoft Bob 



several different processors including 
(until 1996) the PowerPC, 

Microsoft released Windows 95 
on August 24, 1995— to 
the public chuckling (and 
private horror) of the 
Mac faithful. 

Microsoft Bob, 
a graphical desktop 
replacement intended for 
computer newbies that, 
for example, replaced your standard 
desktop with an image of a living room, 
showed up in 1995. Bob promptly 
flopped and slunk back under a rock. 



THE WDRLD 




Michael Jordan 



Michael jordan 
retired from the NBA 
in 1993— for the | 

first time— to start a 
baseball career with 
the Chicago White 
Sox. He played with 
their Class AA team, the Birmingham 
Barons, but ended up returning to the 
Bulls in 1995. 

In 1994, the blood on George 
Lucas’s contract with the Devil finally 
dried, and he began writing the Star 
Wars prequels. 

Bill Watterson stopped penning 



Calvin and Hobbes in 1995. No one 
could get out of bed the next day. 

The Chunnel (connecting England 
and France) opened In 1994. 



Did You Know? 

The Power Mac 7100 had three code names. 
1) Carl Sagan— but when Sagan protested, 
it became 2) BHA (butt-head astronomer). 
When Sagan threatened to sue over BHA, 
it became 3) LAW (lawyers are wimps, or 
so the story goes). The suit did go to court, 
where judge Lourdes G. Baird sagely pointed 
out that “figurative language militates 
against implying an assertion of fact,” 
and that the term butt-head was 
“undefined.” (Shut up, Beavis!) 



Rnftia ftf tho RnWliminrHc Just before the 1994 winter Olympics, skater Nancy 
DUlltC III UIC DUUyi|UUi Kerrigan got clubbed on the knee. Police arrested 
rival Tonya Harding’s bodyguarcl, Shawn Eric Eckardt (among others). That same year, The 
Bodyguard won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Which was the greater crime? We’re not sure. 



January 2004 MacAddict 27 



The clock speed of the original Macintosh was 8MHz. The Power Mac G5 clocks in at 2GHz— and that’s just one of the two chips in that machine. 
Amount of increase: 250 times faster— that’s the difference between walking and breaking the sound barrier. 











WANDERING Si DESERT 



T hese were the times that tried Mac fans' souls, if you stuck with 
Apple through these years, you deserve a medal. 

First, there was a major change in management. Gil Amelio, 
previously CEO of National Semiconductor, replaced 
Spindler, who resigned under pressure in early 1996. 

Unfortunately, Amelio didn't prove to be the savior 
that the Mac faithful hoped he would be. During the 
next year, Amelio presided over more than a billion 
dollars in losses and eroding confidence in Apple's 
survival. This downward spiral, during which many 
Mac users dabbled with the dark side by trying a PC, 
hit its lowest point in January 1997 at Macworld 
Expo San Francisco. 

In what we here at MacAddia call "The Keynote from Hell," Amelio 
appeared to have skipped his meds that woeful morn, rambling on 
for a surreal hour and a half and calling Muhammad Ali and other 




celebrities up onstage. Mac loyalists in attendance collectively buried 
their heads in their hands, sure that Apple was doomed. But there was 
one bright spot; Steve Jobs appeared onstage and demoed Rhapsody, 
which was supposed to be the next generation of the 
Macintosh operating system [a fusion of Mac OS and 
NeXT's operating-system technology}. Jobs had 
rejoined Apple as an advisor after Apple purchased 
NeXT on December 20, 1996. 

On July 9, 1997, Amelio and his chief technology 
officer, Ellen Hancock, resigned from Apple. Jobs took 
over, ended the licensing of the Mac OS [effectively 
ending the clone era and bringing those revenues back 
to Apple], and announced a partnership with Microsoft 
in which the Redmond behemoth invested in Apple and continued to 
develop Microsoft Office. This move boosted investor confidence and 
helped Apple survive its toughest time. 







28 Mac . / JanLfary 2004 






PowerBook 5300 (1995 to 1996] 

, Yes, the PotwerBook 5300 appeared just before this era, 
t but it perfectly represents the darkest days of Apple, 
k Based on the PowerPC 603 chip, the PowerBook 5300 
K was the first PowerBook to use a PowerPC— and it ran 
K at a then-respectable lOOMHz. But it also had some 
HL real problems. For one, an inordinate number of them 
Vk shipped dead on arrival. Users also reported problems 
with display hinges and power adapters. But the 
kicker was that the 5300’s battery had a defect: In 
Vk rare cases, the battery could theoretically explode 
and catch fire. While Apple still insists that 
never actually happened, the poor 5300 
became the butt of jokes that 
persisted for years. 



' '■ The PowerBook 

riag K' 5300 was the most 

infamous PowerBook 
ever because of its 
theoretically incendiary 
battery, which hurt Apple's 
reputation for quality products at a time 
when the company needed consumer confidence most. 
Ironically, the symbolism was alt too real: At this time, Apple 
as a company was also on the verge of bursting into flames. 







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SQFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS 



THE KEEPER 

Power Macintosh 9500 
(1995 to 1997) 

The first versions of this Mac debuted in 1995, but the 
bulk of its life was in 1996.. Built on a PowerPC 60A 
processor, the PowerMac 9500 could use up to 1.5GB 
of RAM and had six PCI slots (the first Mac with PCI 
slots, along with the PowerMac 8500). Along with the 
9500’s successor (the 9600), this was the last time 
any Mac would have that many slots. The 9500 even 
came in a couple of multiprocessor 
models— the first multiprocessor 
Macs that Apple made. What 
didn*t impress, however, was the 
9500*s case design. Installing RAM 
and other components required 
removing the motherboard from 
the case— an arduous process that 
often spilled blood. 

THE STINKERS 

Pippin (1996 to 1998) 

The Pippin, a project that first started under Spindler, 
was Apple’s attempt to build a consumer gaming 
console and WebTV-like device. It finally saw the light 
of day underthe name @World (or(§)Mark, in Japan). 
Users could play games, use a somewhat limited 
selection of Mac software, and browse the Web on 
theIrTVs using a scaled-down version of the Mac OS. 
Unfortunately, text rendering on TVs was bad, game 
selection was even worse, and the @World cost a 
hefty $599. In the end, the Pippin lived a short and 
unhappy life, selling less than 12,000 units in the 
U.S. before being liquidated in 1998. 




Apple’s online eWorld service 
went dark in 1996, forcing 147,500 
members into the real world. 

Apple released both System 7.6 
and Mac OS 8 in 1997. While 7.6 
was a much-needed cleanup, Mac 
OS 8— which only ran on PowerPC- 
based Macs— contained significant 
new features such as an Internet 
setup assistant, improved list 
views, and a threaded Finder that 
allowed simultaneous file copying. 

In 1993, Apple began touting 
OpenDoc technology— a scheme 
to make documents, instead of 
applications, the focus of your 




Blizzard's Diablo 



work— as the future of software 
development. The developer world 
yawned and continued to work 
on applications. OpenDoc did, 
however, produce Apple’s first 
Web browser, CyberDog. 

Blizzard unleashed the RPG 
Diablo on the world in 1996. 




THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY 



Scientists cloned Dolly the 
sheep in July of 1996, who— or is it 
which?— lived until February of 2003. 
^ In 1996, IBM 
supercomputer 
Deep Blue wiped the 
chess board with 
Garry Kasparov. 

Windows NT4, 

Microsoft’s server- level 
operating system, debuted 
in 1996. 

In 1996, the long-anticipated 
digital-media revolution started 
turning out products people 



actually used, such as the first 
DVD players. Also, MP3-based 
music began its meteoric 
rise as the future of music 
distribution. 

^ A 1997 analysis of Martian 
meteorites hinted at life on 
Mars. The Mars Pathfinder 
probe cruised around in search 
of E.T. but came up empty. 

^ M ac Ad dfct\N as founded in 
1996 at a time when many said 
we were insane for starting a new 
Mac magazine. Maybe we were. 
Maybe we still are. 




Dolly 



20th Anmversary Nadiitosh (1997 to 1998) 

This machine’s moniker actually referred to 






THE WORLD 



Apple’s 20th anniversary, not the Mac’s. The 20th 
Anniversary Macintosh had TV and FM radio tuners 
built in, a sound system designed by Bose, and 
an LCD display. Many thought it visually stunning, 
while others were just stunned, Taser-style. 

Whether you thought it was cool or not, the biggest 
problem was its price— it started at almost $10,000. 
This price didn’t last long, though. By the end of its 
life in 1998, it was selling for around $2,000. Yes, 
the 20th Anniversary Macintosh still has Its fans. 




but so does the AMC Pacer. 



In 1996, Atlanta played host 
to the Summer Olympics and a 
fatal bombing. 



years of British rule. 

Comet Hale-Bopp made an 
appearance in 1997. 



The Coen brothers released 
the film Fargo in 1996. The North 
Dakota accent became infamous. 

Independence Day, starring a 
PowerBook 5300 and a president in 
a flight suit, was the top-grossing 
film of 1996. VHS copies of the 
movie found their way underneath 
Macworld Expo keynote seats in 
January 1997 as door prizes. 

Hong Kong returned to Chinese 
control in 1997 after more than 150 



Beavis and Butt- Head ended its run 0 

llUlinCQQS QFIQ DQSlQruS MTV in 1997 and Sout/rPar/r debuted 



Did You Know? 

Power Computing developed an ad 
campaign that featured a Sluggo-like 
character saying, “Let's kick Intel’s 

ass!” to announce 
a 225MHz 
Macintosh clone. 

Deemed too 
controversial— in 
part because of a 
threatened lawsuit 
by Sluggo’s 
lawyers— Power 
Power Computing Computing 

Poster shelved it. 




Folks who were sick of “huhhuhhuh” didn’t know what they were in for until cries of 
“They killed Kenny—you bastards!” rang through dorms and offices everywhere. 



January 2004 MacAidict 29 



The original Mac shipped with LocalTalk capabilities built in, which moved data at a glacial speed of 230 Kbps (kilobits per second). 
The Power Mac G5 ships with Gigabit Ethernet— that is, 1,000 Mbps Ethernet. Amount of increase: 4,452 times faster. 











B y 1998r the coals of Apple's return to greatness were beginning 
to glow. Jobs turned losses into profits^ inspired his employees, 
and slimmed down a bloated and confused product line. And 
then there was Apple's ace in the hole, the product that brought Apple 
back to prominence: the iMac, announced on May 6, 1998. 

The other huge development during this period was the move 
to Mac OS X. Thanks to the acquisition of NeXT, Apple not only 
got Steve Jobs back into the fold, it also gained NeXT's NeXTStep 
operating system and the engineers who worked on it. Those talented 
folks helped build Mac OS X, which finally brought Apple's operating 
system up to par with other modern OSs. Based on Unix and able 
to run Mac OS 9 applications in its Classic environment, Mac OS X 
allowed Apple to move to a next-generation OS while keeping the 
transition as smooth as possible. The key: the Carbon API (application 
program interface] set, which allowed Mac application developers to 



30 MacAWIct January 2004 



tweak— rather than rewrite— their code to get it to work in Mac OS X, 
thus ensuring that developers were on board for the transition. 

During this time, Apple took its new mantra— Think Different 
(the ad campaign that began in 1997]— to heart. Apple was busy 
reinventing itself as much more than a PC maker. First, the company 
created its digital hub strategy, based on the idea that the Mac was at 
the center of peripherals such as digital cameras, MP3 players, and 
camcorders. This idea also drove Apple to develop iMovie, iT unes, 
iDVD, and iPhoto— digital lifestyle applications that the PC industry 
tried, and failed, to copy. Apple also created innovative industrial 
design, producing hits such as the iMac, iBook, and failure-turned- 
coilectible Power Mac G4 Cube. 

Thanks to these efforts, Apple returned to profitability and 
stability— and to Its rightful place as the top innovator in the 
personal-computer industry. 









THE KEEPERS 

iBook (1999 to 2000) 

The iBook was a portable version of 
the iMac, and likewise came in blinding 
colors. The case was durable and Apple 
claimed that its Li-Ion battery could last 
up to 6 hours. You had to do some pretty 
serious power management (like not 
turning It on) to get that much life out of 
it, but it did last longer than PowerBooks 
of the time. The iBook also came with 
Ethernet-speed wireless networking 
in the form ofAirPort, 
which continues 
■ - to revolutionize 

connectivity. Critics 
said that the IBook 
^ ^ looked like a toilet 

seat— probably 
because it did. 

BhK-aid-Uliiteli3(U99) 

Another revolutionary design, the Blue- 
and-White G3 used ATA hard drives 
instead of SCSI— and while many Mac 
folks still didn't trust ATA hard drives, the 
decision to include them proved wiser 
as ATA drive capacities grew and prices 
plummeted. Like the iMac, the Blue- 
and-White G3 featured USB Instead of 
serial ports. This G3 was 
also the first to feature 
onboard FireWire, and it 
had an elegant flip-down 
door that inspires Power ; 

Macs to this day. To 
anyone who lost a finger . 
installing RAM in a 9500, | 
this design improvement 
brought a tear to the eye. 

THE STINKER 

B4CHlw[20Nto2Ul) 

Packed into a 10-by-8-by-8-inch 
transparent cube, the G4 Cube featured 
a PowerPC G4 running at 450 or 500MHz, 
and since it was cooled by convection, 
it ran silently. The optical drive was a 
toaster-style, vertical slot-loading drive. 
Unfortunately, Apple discontinued the 
Cube a year after its Introduction. Why? 
For one, the Cube did not have any real 
expandability— there were no PCI or PC 
card slots. But the real issue 
was price— the Power Mac G4 
J was just a better value than 
: the Cube. 



SOFTWARE DEVELOPHEHTS 



The Mac OS moved from 8.5 
to 10.2 during this time, which 
was the Mac equivalent of trading 
a 78 Toyota Celica for a late- 
model Lamborghini— an especially 
apt comparison, as the early 
Iterations of OS X were as finicky 
as an Italian sports car. 

Apple released Mac OS 9 in 1999- 
the last major version in the venerable 
Classic Mac OS line. 

Apple released a public beta of 
Mac OS X In September 2000. It then 
followed up with four major releases: 
Mac OS X in March 2001, 10.1 in 
September 2001, 10.2 Oaguar) in 
September 2002, and 10.3 (Panther) 
in October 2003. 








Apple’s iPhoto 

During this period, Apple released 
IMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD, 
among other iApps. 

Adobe released InDesign 1.0 
in 1999, InDesign 2.0 In 2002, and 
InDesign CS (effectively version 3) in 
late 2003. Quark finally moved Xpress 
from 4.0 to 5.0 in 2002 but waited 
another year before adding Mac OS X 
support in version 6. 



THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY 



ICANN (Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers) was 
created to manage the Internet’s 
domain names in 1998. 

Windows 98, Windows 2000, and 
Windows XP debuted in 1998, 2000, 
and 2001, respectively. 

Linux, an open-source Unix ^ 
derivative, gathered enough 
momentum to Inspire IBM to sell 
it with its servers. 

The Ellis Island database 



went live on the Web in 2001 (www 
.ellisislandrecords.org), allowing people 
to search fortheir Immigrant ancestors. 

TiVo announced its 
^ self-named digital video 
recorders in late 1998. 
The dot-com boom 
became the dot-bomb bust 
as investors remembered 
In 2001 that businesses 
actually need to make 
a profit. 



■ 

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Pets.coin Sock 
Puppet 



THE WORLD 






^ Mark McGwire broke Roger Marls’s 
single-season home-run record in 
1998 with 70 home runs. Barry Bonds 
broke McGwire’s record in 2001 with 
73 home runs. 

Bob Barker taped the 5,000th 
episode of The Price is Right In 1998. 
^ Michael Jordan announced his 
second retirement from basketball 
in 1999. 

In 1999, changed 

action and science-fiction 
films forever. 



On January 1, 

2001, Seattle’s 
Magnuson park 
played host to a 
9-foot black monolith i 
in honor of 2001: A 
Space Odyssey. space odyssey 



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Did You Know? 

Easter eggs— once found throughout the 
Mac’s operating system— became all 
but extinct during this period as Apple 
emphasized collaborative effort over 
individual achievement. 






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TU In the closingweeks of 1999, paranoiacs scrounged for 
IlSCilliy nC6lS flSOiiiy l V food, water, and batteries In preparation for the loss of 
all civilized society come 12:01 a.m., January 1, 2000. The next year, 16 contestants scrounged 
for food, water, and batteries in a quest to win a million dollars on the island of Pulau Tiga when 
Surv/Vor premiered on CBS. As it turns out, the St/rwVorfinale proved much less of a letdown. 



January 2004 MacAddIct 31 












32 Macy4ddlct January 2004 



I t's an exciting [though somewhat scary] time 
for Apple. Exciting in that Apple has its best 
product line in its history, scary in that even 
its mega-popular Switchers campaign hasn't 
resulted in double-digit market share. Still, the 
company is turning a profit, stabilizing its market 
share, and performing more than respectably in 
the laptop market. 



Apple is also continuing to lead the industry in 
innovation— the iPod and iT unes 4 Music Store 
have revolutionized how music is distributed 
and sold, and they provide a legal (and fun] 
alternative to file-sharing networks. Jobs and 
his talented team are still driving the company 
forward, so expect many tasty things to come over 
the next few years. 



Power Hoc ts(zn3 to?) 

This is the latest in the 
long-lived Power Macintosh 
line. Based on a 64-bit 
microprocessor (the first 
increase ofthis kind since 
the late ’80s), the Power ■ 
Mac G5 uses a raft of new 
technologies— AirPort 
Extreme 802.11g wireless 
networking, Serial ATA, 
FireWire 800, USB 2.0, 
and AGP 8x Pro, to name 
just a few— in a cheese 
grater-inspired case. This is 
the future of the Macintosh, 
at least for professionals. 
Based on history, you 
can expect that the G5 
microprocessor will be inside 
Macs for five years or more. 

This is the 

first major system overhaul 
in years and introduces 
many new technologies. 

For example, the Dual 2GHz 
^ , Power Mac G5 can address 
up to 8GB of memory, has 
' i dual IGHz front-side busses, 
and shoves all of its input- 
output mojo (including 
FireWire 800, USB 2.0, 
and optical audio) through 
a pair of HyperTransport 
I/O controllers for up to 3.2 
GBps of throughput. It also 
features a quiet case design 
that keeps its processors 
cool without causing 
hearing loss. 





THE KEEPERS 

iPod(20a2-?l 

We nearly crowned the iPod, and all it 
represents, as this era’s Mac That Says 
It All— even though it’s not a Mac. One 
aspect of Apple’s contribution to the MP3 
digital-music revolution, the iPod uses 
FireWire to transfer files and charge its 
battery, can hold thousands of songs 
on a hard drive up 
to 40GB, is small 
enough to fit into 
your pocket, and 
beats the pants off 
ofany other device 
of its kind. But more 
importantly, the 
iPod represents a 
new direction for 
Apple: digital 
entertainment. 

With an iPod, 
a computer (Mac 
or PC), and the iTunes 
Music Store, Apple now caters 
to an entirely new base of customers 
who can listen to and purchase music 
and spoken-word audio in ways no one 
imagined just a few years ago. 

Flat-panel INac (2002-?) 

Although the flat-panel iMac debuted 
in 2002 (first by accident on a Canadian 
Time Magazine Web site, just hours 
before Steve jobs officially announced 
the product), the latest iteration is the 
best, with your choice of an adjustable 
15-, 17-, or 20-inch screen. With built- 
in Bluetooth and 



AirPort Extreme, 
the flat-panel 
iMac only 
needs power, 
a keyboard, 
and a ’ 



to do its job in style. 
Like the Mac 128K, it 
revolutionized the 
look of the all-in-one 
computer. 





SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS 



Safari— Apple’s second attempt at 
a Web browser— debuted in January 

2003. Microsoft 
decided to 
cease further 
development 
of Internet 
Explorer for 
Mac shortly 
thereafter. 



Apple Safari 



Also in January, Apple released 
Keynote, to the thankful sobbing of 
PowerPoint users everywhere. 

-> Apple released the ITunes Music 
Store for the Mac in April and for 
Windows in October. 

In October, Apple released Mac 
OS 10.3, aka Panther, featuring fast user 
switching, Expose, Xll, and FreeBSD 5. 



THE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY 



^ Former Vice President Al Gore 
joined Apple’s board of directors. 

The RIAA sued hundreds of peer-to- 
peer music swappers in one of the least 
even-handed corporate 
shenanigans to date. 

^ In August, Mars 
made its closest 
approach to Earth in 
recorded human history. 

China became the 
third nation to send a 
human into space with its launch of the 
Shenzhou 5. 



Mars 



Right in time for the holidays, 
MacSoft released Halo, Bungle’s first- 
person shooter. Halo started as a Mac 
game, but Microsoft bought Bungle to 
make games for its Xbox console. 




THE WORLD 



Although the film Finding Nemo, 
produced by the Steve Jobs-owned 
Pixar, was a money-making blockbuster, 
sushi remained on the menu at Apple. 

in February, space shuttle Columbia 
broke up on reentry due to a missing 
piece of insulation foam that fell off 
during launch. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger became 
California governor in a recall election. 
The rest of the country stifled chuckles. 



Technology into the Future 

The Mac has always been on the cutting 
edge, showcasing new technologies 
or popularizing existing technologies. 
Here are some of the emerging 
technologies to watch. 

1 WIRELESS BROADBAND 
Think Airport’s big? You ain’t seen 
nothin’ yet. With the right antennas and 
a clear line of sight, you can now use 
Airport’s 802,11b technology to throw a 
wireless link 20 miles. The implications 
are staggering: With a few hundred 
dollars of gear and the right landscape, 
you can push a broadband link out to 
areas that would otherwise not be able 
to receive one— like that log cabin in 
rural Kentucky you’ve had your eye on. 

2 BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES 
This year, the FCC is rolling out 
the technology to provide DSL-class 
connectivity over power lines In at 
least a dozen pilot projects across the 
country. Locations include Potomac, 
Maryland; Manassas City, Virginia; and 
Emmaus, Pennsylvania. The implication? 
Broadband in every home that has 
power lines. Finally, universal high- 
speed access may become a reality. 

3 HANDHELD VIDEO PLAYER 
The rumor about that portable 
video player keeps coming up— and 
who wouldn’t want a handheld device 
that could play downloaded movies? 

Add a fast wireless connection for 
broadcasting video and a FireWire port 
for charging and connecting a video 
camera, and we’d really have something. 

4 SOCIAL SOFTWARE 

Blogs, flash mobs, friend finders, 
online multiplayer games— the advent of 
the Internet means new ways for actual 
human beings to interact and connect. 
Telephone, schmelephone, 

5 FUEL-CELL BATTERIES 
Pop in a hydrogen or methane 
cartridge and get several hours of 
electricity. Fuel-cell batteries are 
already in test labs and are on their way 
to the laptop. The benefit? No more 
5300-style accidents (although the 
Hindenberg comes to mind), plus you 
get longer hours of operation, a lighter 
laptop, and drinkable water to boot. 



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Series. The Red Sox’s curse originated when Babe Ruth’s contract was sold to the Yankees in 1920— the Sox haven’t won since. The Chicago Cubs* 
curse dates back to 1945, when a tavern owner cast a hex on the team when he wasn’t allowed to bring his goat into Wrigley to watch the World 
Series— the Cubs haven’t even been in a Series since. Looking into the future, we’re betting on the Sox— even Sammy and Dusty can’t overcome 
bad goat juju. 



Emory Christensen is a freelance technology writer who happens to have a Mac fetish. He’s coauthor of 
lU a couple chapters in the upcoming Afac/ntos/r Bible, and he really likes the idea of the Macintosh IV. 



January 2004 MacAddIct 33 



The original Macintosh sold for $2,495. The Dual 2GHz PowerMac G5 sells for $2,999. Consideringthat$2,495 in 1984 dollars is equivalent to $4,447 in 2003 dollars, 
the latest Power Mac is a bargain. Now you can justify buying two— the Power Mac G5 costs only 56 percent as much as the original! 










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WHO’S KING OaiflE COMPUTING MLL, A DUAL 2^^kPOWER 
MAC G5 OR A grf^HZ PENTIUM 4 P^ OUR EXPER^j^^T ’EM 
Jp^OTH AND REVEAL TRUTH. 

The v^jtd’s fastest personal compu^at. That’s what Steve Jobs 
^Ttls the Power Mac G5— so it must be true, right? 
m Maybe so. But we want^ proof. ^ 

Plus, th^Wintel-lovinggearheads at oursi^er publication, Maximum PC, 
challenged us to a Mac versus PC smackdown. W^immediately accepted. After all, 
we have ouiwride— and we believed that armed wBh a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 we 
/ could grind their puny 3.2GHz Pentium 4 PC into the dust. 

So each editorial team pulled out its clipboards and gathered bang-for-the-buck 
info. Then we grabbed our stopwatches; fired up iur respective machines; ran a 
passel of benchmarks, real-world apps, and gaifies; and shared our results. 

So, is Steve right? Yes. And no. 



Read on. 



by Rik Myslewski 



January 2004 MacAldIct 3a 




✓ 



/ 



WHICH IS THE ^ 
BETTER BUY? 

MACS GET KNOCKED FOR BEING EXPENSIVE, 
BUT is THAT CRITICISM UNFAIR? YUP, 



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efs start with the obvious: Macs and PCs are different 
animals. Very different. And both have their pros and 
cons. W§Mac addicts^^r example, take justifiable pride in 
our plifant Unix-ba^e^OS, seamless application integration, 
an^dfhe exquisite eng|heering found in all Apple products. 

PC weenies— uh, aficionados— point to their systems’ easy 
expandability, oft-superior gaming performance, and heap of 
Windows applications suitable for every occasion. 

On the downside, we cop to limited video-card options, a 
meager number of USB ports, and an embarrassingly short 
one-year limited warranty. On the PC side, you find screaming- 
loud cooling fans, uninspired industrial design and 
engineering, and an OS that’s prone to 
crashes and difficult to use. 

Then there’s the matter of price. 

Macs have long been criticized for 
their high cost, and though they’re 
currently more affordable than ever, 
factors such as vicious competition, 
a flood of cut-rate components, and 
the screaming nose-dive in the PC 
marketplace, have driven PC prices 
even lower. 

We assembled a quintet of kinda- 
sorta-comparable PCs (see “You Get 
What You Pay For,*’ below) from the build- 




to-orderWeb pages of leading manufacturers, and compared 
them to a kinda-sorta-similarly configured Dual 2GHz Power 
Mac G5. Among our test models, the PowerMac was the most 
expensive— and, in some cases, the most expensive by far. 

But is the Mac’s premium price justified? The Dual 2GHz 
Power Mac G5 is the only system on our list with lightening- 
fast PCI-X slots, FireWire 800, the convenience of ADC— and, of 
course, dual processors, since the Pentium 4 doesn’t support 
multiprocessing. On the other hand, workstation-class PCs such 
as the IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6230 have scads of USB ports 
and PCI slots, enjoy three-year warranties, and can be fitted 
with workstation-class video cards such as the nVidia Quadro 
FX 1000. While the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 straddles the fence 
between consumer- and workstation-class machines, the 
best-performing card Apple offers for it is the decidedly 
consumer-class ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Hardware to hardware, 
the best bang for the buck is a tough call, though we have to 
give the nod to the PC. 

But hardware is only part of the story. The Power Mac G5 
not only ships with Mac OS X, but it also comes with (take a 
deep breath) iCal, iChat, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iSync, ITunes, 
Address Book, Apple Developer Tools, Art Directors Toolkit, 
FAXstf, GraphicConverter, Mail, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, 
QuickBooks, QuickTime, Safari, Sherlock, and more. And while 
one could argue that some of those apps are free downloads 
from the Apple Web site, in truth there ain’t nothin’ that’s 
free— all of those “free” apps are subsidized by the extra cash 
we pay for our Macs. 

Considering its ease of maintenance, tightly integrated 
software, precision engineering, and market-leading industrial 
design, we think the Mac, as a complete hardware-software 
package, is worth a few extra bucks. 



You Get What You Pay For 

We assembled five custom peecees, each powered by a top-of-the-line 3.2GHz Pentium 4, and equipped them 
similarly to a Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5. Hardware to hardware, the Apple dualie was the most expensive. 





Apple 
Dual2GHz 
Power Mac G5 


Del) 

Precision 360 


Gateway 

E-6100-C 


hp Compaq d530 
Convertible Minitower 


hp workstation 
xw4100 


IBM 1 

IntelliStation 
MPro6230 


Price as Configured 


$3,549 


$3,079 


$2,519 


$2,089 


$3,318 


$3,372 


Processor lype 


duallBM PowerPC 970 


Intel Pentium 4 


Intel Pentium 4 


Intel Pentium 4 


Intel Pentium 4 


Intelpentium4 


Processor Speed 


dual 2GHz 


3.2GHz 


3.2GHz 


3.2GHz 


3.2GHz ! 


3.26Hz 


Frontside Bus Speed 


: dual IGHz 


800MHz 


800MHz 


800MHz 


800MHz ! 


800MHz 


L2 Cache 


two512K 


512K 


512K 


512K 


512K 


512K 


DDR SDRAM 


1GB 


1GB 


1GB 


1GB 


1GB 


1GB 


Hard-Drive Type 


7,200-rpm SATA 150 


7,200-rpm SATA 150 


7,200-rpm SATA 150 


7,200-rpm ATA/100 


7,200-rpm SATA 150 


7.200- rpm SATA 150, 

7. 200- rDfn ATA/100 


Hard-Drive Capacity 


160GB 


120GB 


160GB 


160GB 


160GB 


160GB (two SOGB) 


Opticai Drive 


DVD-R/ROM, 

CD-R/RW/ROM 


DVO+R/RW/ROM, 

CD-R/RW/ROM 


P 

is 


DVD+R/RW/ROM, 

CD-R/RW/ROM 


DVD+RW/R/ROM, 

CD-R/RW/ROM 


DVD-RW/R/ROM/RAM, 

CD-R/iW/ROM 


Roppy Drive 


no 


yes 


yes 


yes 


yes 


yes 


Video-Card Type 


ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 


ATIFireGLXl 


ATI Radeon 96006 


nVidia GeForce FX 


nVidia Quadro4980XGl 


nVidia Quadro FX 1000 


Video-Card RAM 


128MB 


128MB 


128MB 


128MB 


128MB 


128M6 


Video-Card Ports 


ADCandDVt 


VGAandDVI 


TVandDVI 


VGAandS-Video 


two VGA, two DVI, or 
VGAandOVl 


two DVI 


AGPSiot 


8x 


8x 


8x 


8x 


8x 


8x 


PCi Slots 


none 


five 


five 


five 


five 


five 


PCI-X Slots 


three 


none 


none 


none 


none 


none 


FireWire 400 Ports 


two (one on front) 1 


three (one on audio card) 


one on audio card 


none 


three (one on front) 


none 


HreWire 800 Ports 


one. 


none 


none 


none 


none 


none 


USB 1.1 Ports 


two on keyboard 


none 


none 


none 


none 


none 


USB 2.0 Ports 


three (one on front) 


eight (two on front) 


eight (two on front) 


six 


six (two on front) 


six (two on front) 


No-Cost Warranty 


one-year limited 


three-year limited* 


three-year limited* 


three-year limited* 


three-year limited* 


three-year limited* 



*onsHe repair 



January 2004 



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WHICH IS THE 
BETTER PERFORMER? 

LIKE BEAUTY, PRIMO PERFORMANCE 
IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. 

ny discussion of performance understandably centers on 
the heart of any Mac or PC: its processori-Although AMD 
and Intel recently released new hot-rod processors (see “The 
Bottom Line,” p38), Intel’s Pentium 4 (aka the P4) powers most 
high-end PCs. With this in mind, we asked the tech wizards at 
PC to build a test PC based on the fastest available 
P4, clocked at3.2Gi^2.They equipped it with other components 
compataW^ to thos^vih^ beefed-up Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5: 
a 120G'^fe 7,200-rpm ^Irial ATA hard drive, 1GB of DDR SDRAM, 
and an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card— a hair over $2,100 
worth of quality do-it-yourselfer components. We then ran an 
assortment of application-benchmark tests, real-world apps, 
and games on both the PC and the dualie. 

APPLICATION BENCHMARKS 

Application benchmarks are odd beasts. Ratherthan 
measuring how an app performs in operations used in 
real-world situations, these tests exercise a wide selection 
of an application's capabilities without weighting the results 
on whether those capabilities are frequently used or not. 

For example, the Photoshop 7.0.1 ($609, www.adobe.com) 
application benchmark developed by the geeks dX Maximum 
PC runs each and every Photoshop filter (except for three 
that froze the benchmark— go figure) one after another. Our 
Photoshop tests, on the other hand (see “Photoshop 7.0.1,” 
below), emphasize operations that are more-commonly used. 
Our reasoning is that you are far more likely to use the Sharpen > 
Unsharp Mask filter than you are to use the Sketch > Plaster 
filter, so you’re more interested in how Photoshop performs 
when you’re working with it. The Maximum PC editors argue 
it’s fairer to treat each and every operation equally. We provide 
both results: Pick the set you want to believe. 

We also ran an application benchmark for Mathematica 5 
($1,880, www.wolfram.com) developed by Stefan Steinhaus 
(www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html), which the good 
folks at Wolfram Research recommended as an especially 
comprehensive test. In this test, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4-based 
PC handily spanked the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5. Keep in 
mind that Mathematica 5 has not yet been optimized for the 
G5 processor— and programming techniques that work great 
for the G4 can actually slow down a G5. The reasons why are 
way too complicated to get into here, but if you’re looking for 
an overview, check out the “Optimizing for the Power Mac 

G5” article on Apple’s 



Application Benchmarks 



Mathematica 5.0 



Photoshop 7.0.1 



0 5 10 15 20 

All times are in minutes. Shorter bars are better. 



if you’re not scintillated by Deep Geek. 

We also uncovered an odd behavior when running 
the Mathematica 5 benchmark: Using CPU Monitor 
(Applications > Utilities > CPU Monitor), we noticed 
that the G5 processors neveroperated at full bore 
simultaneously. In fact, if one processor was 
running at 100 percent, the other was idle; if one 
was at 60 percent, the other was at 40— the total 
utilization added up to 100 percent, not the 200 
percent we expected from an app designed to take 
advantage of the Power Mac G5's dual processors. 

A Wolfram spokesperson told us that the company 
is planning to release an upgrade to Mathematica 5, 
but that it doesn’t yet have a firm release date. 



PHOTOSHOP 7.0.1 

We left the rarified air of application benchmark 
testing and entered the real world of Adobe 
Photoshop 7.0.1. Using the same Photoshop Action 
we used for last month’s review of the Dual 2GHz 
Power Mac G5 (see Reviews, Dec/03, p50), we 
ran this Action on the G5 and P4 machines, using 
identical 25MB and 50MB PSD 
files (see “The Fine Print,” p38, 
for details on this and all other 
tests). As we mentioned, our 
test was designed to mimic real 
work done by real people in the 
real world. Turns out that the G5 
is better tuned to reality than a 
3.2GHz P4. 



Photoshop 7.0.1 



INDESIGN 2.0 

For our next test, we fired up InDesign 2.0 
($699, www.adobe.com) on both 
platforms and exported a 16-page 
magazine feature with a ton of 
links into PDF format. In this 
case, the Dual 2GHz Power Mac 
G5 didn’t fare as well, but It was 
close: The P4-based PC edged it 
out by four seconds in tests that 
took about a minute to perform. 



50MB file 



InPesipn 2.0 



■ Export Complex PDF 



0 25 50 75 

All times are in seconds. Shorter bars are better. 



Developer Connection 
Web site: http:// 
developer.apple.com 
/performance 
/g5optimization.html. 

Tip: Do not star/ reading 
this if you’re sleepy ^and 
have had a beer ortivo— / 
it can be tough sledding 



QUICKTIME PRO 6.3 

We then switched over to QuickTime Pro 6.3 
($29.99, www.apple.com), and exported a 
2GB DV file into MOV format. 

The G5 edged out the 
P4, but again the difference 
in speed was not great: The 
P4-based PC was about 93 
percent as fast as the Dual 
2GHz PowerMac G5. 

^iieiLE/MACBIBBLE 

Pro digital-camera jockeys use BIbble ($75, 
www.bibblelabs.com) and its Mac counterpart— 
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camera is able to capture 
images in RAW format, rather 
than lower-quality, camera-processed JPEG files. We used Bibble 
and MacBibble (both at version 3.1a) to batch-convert a load of 
RAW images to TIFFs. The results prove Bibble Labs' claim that 
MacBibble is “Mutlithreaded to be Super Fast on Duai CPU Mac 
G4’s” extends to G5s as well. Who cares if their grammar and 
spelling suck? Their software kicks. 

COMPRESSOR VS. PROCODER 1.5 

ForoQr last real-world test, we had to use different apps 
on each platform since Apple’s Compressor video encoder 
(bundled with Final Cut Pro 4 and DVD Studio Pro 2; $999 and 
$499 respectively, vyww.apple.com) doesn’t run on a Wintel 
box. Following Apple’s advice, and with the agreement of 
our Maximum PC counterparts, we used ProCoder 1.5 ($499, 
www.canopus.com) on the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 PC. In a quick- 
and-dirty encoding of a 1GB DV file into MPEG-2, the two apps 
performed essentially the same. When encoding the same file 
at high-quality settings, however, the Dual 2GHz Power Mac 
G5 smoked the P4-based 
PC. Canopus, ProCoder’s 
developer, claims that 
their Mastering Quality 
setting— which we used in 
this test— produces higher- 
quality MPEG-2 files than 
Compressor’s High Quality 
setting (its top setting). 

Maybe so. Maybe not. 

GAMES 

just when we were feeling pretty darn good about the Dual 2GHz 
Power Mac G5 versus the 3.2GHz Pentium 4 PC, we loaded up 
Unreal Tournament 2003 ($49.99, www.macsoft.com). Quake 
111: Arena ($49.99, www.idsoftware.com), and Star Wars jedi 
Knight II: jedi Outcast ($49.99, www.aspyr.com), and ran some 
framerate tests. Humility reasserted itself. Although the G5 
and P4 pumped out identical framerates in Quake III: Arena, 
the P4 soundly whupped the G5 in Jedi Knight II and thoroughly 
embarrassed it in Unreal Tournament 2003. MacSoft and 
Aspyr spokespersons reminded us that UT03 and Jedi Knight II 





are optimized for the G4, 
and that some of those 
optimizations degrade G5 
performance. The Aspyr 
spokesperson said that 
Jedi Knight II will soon be 
optimized forthe G5, and 
the MacSoft spokesperson 
told us that Unreal 
Tournament 2004 (see “The 
Scoop: Unreal Tournament 
2004,” pl8) will also be 
optimized forthe G5— let’s 
hope optimization is complete by the time UT04 ships 
in early 2004. 




THE BOTTOM LINE 

I f you live and work in the real world, the Dual 2GHz Power Mac 
G5 will help you get creative work done faster than a 3.2GHz 
Pentium 4-based PC. If mere horsepower floats your boat, the 
situation is murkier: In the application benchmark tests we ran, 
the P4 handled the G5. Caveats, however, abound. First, the 65 
is the new kid on the block. It’ll be a while before software is 
optimized to take advantage of all its power, just as many apps 
ran slower on the Pentium 4 when it first arrived on the scene 
than they did on the Pentium 111— and it took nearly three years 
for software developers to master all of the P4’s tricks. 

But the Wintel world isn’t standing still, either. Although 
we tested the G5 versus the most powerful widely available 
microprocessor, the 3.2GHz Pentium 4, two new— and 
may mac/70— chips have entered the fray since the G5 was 
announced: the AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 and the Intel Pentium 4 
Extreme Edition, which is essentially a slimmed-down server- 
class Intel Xeon. At press time, no major PC manufacturer had 
yet incorporated these chips Into their product lines, but when 
Maximum PC ran these same tests on homebrew PC set-ups, 
the G5 won on a few tests but overall came in third. 

So, is the Dual 2GHz Power Mac 65 the world's fastest 
personal computer? Sadly, there’s no irrefutable answer to that 
question— it depends on what tests you’re running and how you 
define personal computer. However, there’s no arguing the fact 
that the G5 is one damn fast chip and that the Dual 2GHz Power 
Mac G5 is one damn fast personal computer. The Mac be back. 




Rik Myslewski, MacAddicVs editor in chief, was once forced to use 
a PC at a now-failed dot-com. It wasn’t his fault. Forgive him. 



The Fine Print 

READ IT AND SLEEP: HERE’S HOW WE TESTED. 

SYSTEMS: Both the Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 and 3.2GHz Pentium 4-based PC were equipped 
with 1GB OF0DR400 SDRAM in dual-channel mode and a Radeon 9800 Pro video card with 128MB 
of DDR SDRAM. The Pentium 4-based PC was based on an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard 
using the Intel 875P chip set and was running Windows XP Professional SPl. The Power Mac 65 
was running Mac OS 10.2.7. 

APPLICATION BENCHMARKS: The Mathematica 5 tests used the Stefan Steinhaus Benchmark 
test (Version 4). The application-benchmark Photoshop 7.0.1 tests ran each bundled Photoshop 
filter in order on a 2MB JPEG file. Three filters were excluded because they caused the benchmark 
to hang during processing. 

PHOTOSHOP 7.0.1; The real-world Photoshop 7.0.1 tests used 25MB and 50MB PSD files. 
Photoshop's Cache level was set to 4, its Memory Usage was set to 100 percent in the Memory 
& Image Cache Preference, and ail its History Options were unchecked. The Photoshop Action 
consisted of the following steps: Gaussian Blur, 50 pixel radius; Revert; Gaussian Blur, 1-pixel 
radius; Unsharp Mask, amount of 150 percent, 2-pixel radius, threshold of 0; Despeckle; Dust & 



Scratches, 8-pixel radius, threshold of 0; Sharpen Edges; Rotate, 90 degrees clockwise; Mode 
Change, RGB to CMYK; Resize, 150 percent, proportions constrained, bicubic interpolation; Save 
As, TIFF, no compression. 

INDESIGN 2.0; The InDesign 2.0 tests outputed to PDFusing an 18,5MB file with 28 linked files 
totaiing 423MB. 

QUICKTIME PRO 6.3; The QuickTime Pro 6,3 tests outputed a 2GB DV file to MOV. 
BiBBLE/MACBIBBLE; The Bibble/MacBibble tests batch -converted a folder containing 85 Nikon 
RAW .NEF files totaling 859MB to 16-blt TIFFs. Version 3.1a was used on both platforms. 
COMPRESSOR VS. PROCODER 1.5; Both the Compressor and ProCoder 1.5 tests encoded a 
1GB DV file to MPEG-2. In the High-Speed test, Compressor was set to Fast Encode in the Preset 
menu and ProCoder was set to a Speed/Quallty Mode of High-Speed. In the High-Quality test, 
compressorwas set to High Quality Encode in the Preset menu and ProCoder was set to a Speed/ 
Quality Mode of Mastering-Quality, 

GAMES; Unreal Tournament 2003 was upgraded with the 2225.1 patch; the framerates cited 
were reported by the application when running the Asbestos fly-by demo. The Quake III: Arena 
tests cited the framerates as reported by the Four demo. Star Wars jedi Knight II; Jedi Outcast 
framerates cited were obtained by a custom benchmark developed by Moxrmum PC. 



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EVERY PENNY 



Bummed that Apple wants you to shell out another $129 for the next 
major version of Mac OS X? You’re not alone. Those loyal to OS X from the 
beginning feel burned each year as Apple unveils— and charges a chunk 
of change for— a new version of its operating system. If your gut reaction 
is to say, “Screw Panther,” we don’t blame you. 

But wait. What if we told you that Panther actually saves you money? 

Think of it this way; Time is money. And since Panther’s all about 
efficiency, performance, and making your life easier, in the end it can 
save you a ton of time— and therefore a ton of cash. 

Don’t believe us? Read on. We picked ten of our favorite Panther 
timesaving features and clocked tasks that use them, comparing the 
results to how long they took us in jaguar, and estimating just how much 
time Panther will save us over a year. We discovered that not only is 
Panther an impeccably designed OS that blows the fur off Jaguar, it’s 
also a money-saver. 

by Deborah Shadovitz 





Better Finder Windows 

OPEN A FINDER WINDOW, and you’re sure to notice 
the new Sidebar, which replaces the Finder toolbar 
and outdoes the (pretty useless) Favorites feature 
from previous Mac OS X versions. No more starting at 
the hard-drive root level and drilling down 20 million 
(OK, four) levels to get to your Documents folder or 
other favorite locale. 

The Sidebar features all of your primary starting 
points, such as your Applications and Home folders. 
Choose which volumes appear by checking them 
under Finder > Preferences > General. You can also 
add any folder or app to the lower part of the Sidebar 
either by dragging it there or by selecting it and 
choosing File > Add To Sidebar. Of course, you can 
remove items from the Sidebar by dragging them to 
the Desktop and watching them go poof. 

The rest of the Finder window looks the same as 
it does in Jaguar, with the ability to set the view to 
Icon, List, or Column. But now in Column view you 
can resize columns individually so they each can be 
a different width. Finally. 

TIME SAVINGS 

Using a highly technical empirical methodology- 
watching our Mac’s clock— we determined that it takes 
on average 6 seconds less to navigate to folders and 
files In Panther than it does in jaguar. We access files, 
say, 18 times a day, so we save about 108 seconds daily. 



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Improved Mail 

IF JAGUAR MAIL, WITH ITS BREAKTHROUGH 

junk-mail filtering tools, didn’t convince you to 
dump your current email program and switch to 
Mail, perhaps Panther will succeed. 

First off. Panther’s Mail offers spefed Increases. 
HTML email renders much fastersince it piggyb^^^ 
on Safari’s HTML rendering engine. A full page 
with graphics takes only a second or two to render 
in Panther, compared to 10 seconds in Mall 1.2.5 
(Jaguar) and 6 seconds in Entourage (in Jaguar). 

But the real Impetus to switch to Mail is its ability 
to follow email threads. 

Panther’s Mail lets you group all 
emails in a thread so that you 
can follow them more efficiently. 

Simply choose View > Organize 
By Thread, and all follow-up 
messages will appear nested 
under the original. An arrow next 
to the first message lets you 
reveal or hide all of the replies. 

And when you click the first 
message in any thread, you get 
a summary that tells you who 
started the thread and lists all 
messages in the thread. Double- 
click any message to read it. 

Addressing and composing 
messages is easier now as well. 

You can drag addresses or notes 
from the Address Book to any 
part of an email. You can also 
drag addresses between the 
To, Cc, and Bcc fields, instead 
of having to copy-paste them. 

Another bonus: You can click any name listed in From 
or To fields to either add that person to your Address 
Book or, if the person’s already there, open the listing. 
Entourage users have enjoyed these features for some 
time— kudos to Apple for catching up. 

Finally, ZIP compression and encoding is built Into 
Mail, so attachments are automatically zipped. 




Click a name in Mail to call up someone’s 
Address Book record. 




All lead messages provide summaries of 
the thread. Click a summary line to jump 
to that message. 





Font Book 

IN PRE-PANTHER VERSIONS OF MAC OS X, it practically takes a Rhodes 
scholar to figure out where to install your fonts, in Panther, font installation 
finally makes sense. 

Font Book is a welcome addition that makes it easy to install fonts, preview 
and search for them, and gather them into groups that you can activate or 
deactivate whenever you want. To install a font, double-click the font file. This 
opens a preview window, which displays the font. If you like the font, click 
Install Font, You can install multiple fonts by selecting several, then double- 
clicking and using the pop-up to preview each one. If you want to make fonts 
you install available to all your Mac*s users, drag them onto the Computer icon 
(under All Fonts) in the Collection column. 

Panther lets you disable fonts too. Just launch Font Book (from the 
Applications folder), select a font, and then click the Disable button. A font 
won’t appear in any app you launch while it’s disabled. 

You can also create collections using the plus button (+), and turn an 
entire collection on or off. To add fonts to a collection, drag them onto the 
collection name in the Collection list. You can place the same font in multiple 
collections, but be aware that when you turn off a collection, that font will 
turn off in all other collections as well (although you can re-enable the font 
manually from within any collection). 

While many of you will use Font Book, professional designers will still want 
to stick with apps like Suitcase ($99.95, www.extensis.com) or FontAgent 
Pro ($89.95, www.insidersoftware.com) for features like professional text 
samples, automatic font activation, and independent set management. 

TIME SAVINGS 

In jaguar, it took about 35 seconds to locate the Fonts folder and drag fonts 
Into it. Panther cuts this to 5 seconds. Install 20 fonts a year, and you save 
10 minutes a year. You also gain about 5 seconds scrolling down shorter font 
lists in your documents, so if you create one document a day and choose three 
fonts per document, you can save 91 minutes a year. Not that we’re counting. 



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Easier Printing 

HALLELUJAH! DESKTOP PRINTERS ARE BACK, and we couldn’t be happier. 

A Desktop Printer is a small application dedicated to the print jobs for one 
particular printer. Launching a Desktop Printer in Panther provides direct 
access to that printer’s job info. To create one, simply add a printer in the 
newly renamed Printer Setup Utility, select it in the Printer List, 
and choose Printers > Create Desktop Printer. This will create 
the application In Library > Printers and create an alias on your 
desktop. 

We like to keep Desktop Printers docked so that we can keep an 
eye on what’s happening with each one and get more details with 
just a click. Also, if you keep a Desktop Printer’s icon docked, you 
can trash the alias and keep your desktop cleaner. But the best 
part? Drag documents right onto a Desktop Printer to print! 




Desktop 
Printers make 
printing a cinch. 



TIME SAVINGS 

Dragging a document to a Desktop Printer can save you 15 seconds or more 
each time you print. If you kill as many trees as we do, 
then you’ll save a minute or more a day. 



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Font Book gives you the power to disable fonts— 



use it with care. 



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Panther now features an improved Font panel that 
lets you add various underlines or strike-throughs, 
change the color of text, and even add a drop 
shadow and set Its angle and spread. 



Start Saving 

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1 



Save gas money by walking to the mailbox 
instead of driving (especially if you live in LA). 



Drop all magazine subscriptions (except your 
one to MacAddIct, of course). 

Look into getting a cheaper cable TV package 
or drop one prime channel. 



4 



Buy generic in the supermarket and 
pharmacy. 



§ Cut out one cup of Starbucks coffee per 
week. Heck, you could buy a car at the end 
of the year with the money you save. 



6 



Hand wash a few garments instead of dry 
cleaning them. 



Crash a couple of parties at Macworld 
Expo for a free meal. 



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Faster Compression 

EVERY VETERAN MAC user uses Aladdin’s Stuffit application to compress 
files. But those who transfer a lot of files will appreciate that PC-standard 
compression and encoding (.zip) are just a click away in Panther. To create a 
compressed archive, just Control-click (or right-click) any file or folder, and 
choose Create Archive from the contextual menu that appears (or select the 
file and go to File > Create Archive). Just like that, your archive appears in the 
same folder as your originals. 



TIME SAVINGS 

Panther’s Create Archive saves 
you from having to locate 
the Stuffit folder, select your 
files, and drag them onto the 
DropStuff or DropZip icon to 
compress a file— that’s about 
10 seconds. Do that once a day 
and, well, you can do the math. 



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FINDER DOCK ICON In Jaguar, clicking the 
Dock’s Finder icon brings up a plain-old Finder 
window, in Panther, it brings up a Finder 
window, complete with the new Sidebar, 
already navigated to a folder of your choosing. 
Customize that setting under Finder > 
Preferences > General using the New Finder 
Window Opens pop-up menu. 

APR SWITCHING You’ve always been able to 
press Command-Tab to switch between open 
apps. But now a strip containing large icons 
appears across your screen displaying all 
active programs, so you can see which app 
you’re activating. 

CONTEXTUAL MENUS Forthose ofyou 
still using Apple’s one-button mouse, the 
Finder window’s Action button equates to 
a Control-click. 



Faster Searching 

IN JAGUAR, USING THE FINDER’S SEARCH function involves typing text, then 
pressing Return to start the search. In Panther, the results list appears in the 
same window— and it’s live. Just start typing key words, and files that fit your 
request start appearing. Keep typing to narrow your search. 

You also have control over which folder or volume Panther searches. As 
with Mail or iTunes, click the magnifying-glass icon to reveal a list of places to 
search. If you choose Selection, Panther pats down only the volume or folder 
selected in the Sidebar. 

Whenever you run a search, a tiny button appears at the bottom-right 
of the Finder window. Clicking it refreshes the find. 

TIME SAVINGS 

In Panther, searching a 30-gig hard drive saves about 100 seconds. 

Do two searches a day, and you save about 3.3 minutes. 





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No more going to System Preferences, 
selecting Software Update, then 
clicking Check Now. Now choose Apple 
menu > Software Update and 
the checking begins! 

You can also check for 
updates by clicking 
Software Update from 
the About This Mac box. 



System Preferences are tidier. My 
Account and Accounts are combined, 
plus it’s easier to set up users, assign 
software-access permissions, and 
choose login items (now called Startup 
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FileVault provides on-the-fly, 
transparent file encryption and 
decryption for everything in your 
Home (aka User) folder. Be careful— 
forget your password, and 
you’ll never see your data 
again. Enable FileVault in 
System Preference’s new 
Security pane. 





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Warp-Speed Preview 

APPLE CALLS PREVIEW THE WORLD’S FASTEST PDF VIEWER-and it ain t lying. 
!n Jaguar's Preview or Adobe Acrobat, it took a full 30 minutes to render all 
page previews of a 622-page PDF (that’s on a 500MHz PowerBookGA). In 
Panther’s Preview, it took closer to 20 seconds. No, you don’t need glasses— 
we said 20 seconds. Here are some other examples: A 4-page store flier and a 
48-page book chapter both rendered in 5 seconds in Panther (down from 30 
and 70 seconds, respectively). 

Even with faster rendering, who has time to read an entire PDF these days? 
Luckily, Preview’s new live searching makes finding info a snap. Begin typing 
what you’re looking for into the Search box, and a list of results appears in 
the drawer below. Keep typing to narrow your search. When you find what you 
want, click the item— the document jumps to that text and highlights it. 

One more improvement: Preview can now convert and render EPS and 
PostScript files. No need to launch a graphics program that takes forever to 
boot up (ahem, Photoshop) just to see what a file looks like. 



TIME SAVINGS 



Between faster rendering and the ability to search. Preview can save average 
users about 5 minutes a week (much 
more if you’re a PDF junkie). 



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Left: A large document renders 
quickly and beautifully. Above: 
Searching large files takes seconds. 
Click any search result to jump to it 
in the document. 



Faster User Switching 

IF YOU SHARE YOUR MAC WITH FAMILY MEMBERS, you’ll love this feature. 

I Say you’re in the middle of an email when your daughter needs to print out 
her report on wallabies right now. Simply select her user name from the 
user menu in the menubar and— with the flourish of the Keynote box-turning 
effect— her user desktop appears. To get back to your email, select your name 
from the user menu and reenteryour password. One user can even process 
files or print while another user is signed in and working. 

To turn on Fast User Switching, navigate to the newly revamped Accounts 
System Preferences. Click Login Options, located at the bottom of the left- 

hand pane that lists all of your accounts. 
Then check Enable Fast User Switching. 

TIME SAVINGS 

With Fast User Switching enabled, a family 
of three can save about 7.5 minutes a day in 
log-in and log-out time-plus, no more "just 
a minute! just a minute!” arguments. 




To switch users, just choose a 
name from the user menu. 



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Expose 

EVER HAVE DOCUMENTS, FINDER WINDOWS, 

and palettes open all overyour desktop— then 
have to move, hide, or minimize about 20 open 
windows just to find one friggin’ file? No, we’re 
not bitter. 

Well, we really aren*t bitter now that we’ve 
got Panther. Expose lets you do one of three 
things: Sweep all open windows out of the way 
to clear your entire desktop, display miniatures 
of all open windows, or display only windows 
from your front-most application. To start using 
this feature, head over to the Expose System 
Preferences to program your choice of keyboard 
commands, mouse buttons, or hot corners 



Applications 

Enhancements 

DISK UTILITY Disk Copy is now part of 
Disk Utility, and It’s easier to use. It’s also 
multithreaded, so you can now make a .dmg 
from a CD while running First Aid functions. 

ADDRESS BOOK You can now 
customize address templates 
(Preferences > Template), and there 
are more fields to choose from, such 




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With Expose, if 
windows are too 
small to recognize 
when minimized, 
mouse over them to 
see their names. To 
bring a particular 
window forward, 
click it and it’ll 
spring forward as 
all other windows 
return to their 
original positions. 




(where you move your mouse to a corner of 
the screen) to activate these functions. Once 
you program these commands, use them to 
minimize or clearyour windows, and then bring 
them back to their original arrangement. 

TIME SAVINGS 

How often do you have to find a file on your 
desktop hiding underneath a swarm of open 
windows? Too many. Expose saves about 20 
seconds each time you use it, which is at least 
20 times a day— that’s 6.7 minutes a day. 



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as Spouse and Children. You can choose how to 
format phone numbers (Preferences > Phone), 
merge duplicate contacts, and print labels, 

iCHAT AV Plug in a Webcam, 
videocamera, or microphone 
for audio and video chats. Tip: 
in iChat AV, you can mouse over 
your buddy picture and click to 
reveal a sheet of up to 16 recent pictures, then 
click the image you want to display. Don’t have 
a pic to pop in? Hook up your iSight (or other 
camera), click the generic picture, and choose 
Edit Picture. Then click Take Video Snapshot. 





WE’D BE THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON THE PUNET if we never received or sent 
another fax again. Unfortunately, many people don’t have a choice. Luckily, 
Apple has made faxing easier on everyone. 

Sending is a no-brainer. Just plug a live phone line into your modem port, 
select Print froij any document, then click Fax to bring up the fax dialog. If 
the recipient’s fax numberis m your Address Book, click the Address Book 
button next to the To field and double-click the fax number in the address 
list that appears. To enter a recipient straight into the fax dialog, type the 
name, followed by a space and the number between these marks; < > (see 
screenshot). If you want, check 
the Cover Page box and type a 
note in the field (there aren’t 
any cover page templates). 

Then click Fax. 

To view a fax’s status, 
double-click the modem icon 
(fax machine) in the Dock, 
and then double-click the job 
listing. Before sending, you 
can click Preview to see how 
it’ll look— save the preview 
document to keep a record 
of the fax that includes the 
time it was sent (stamped 
automatically at the top of 
each fax page). 

To receive faxes, choose 
Print & Fax in System 
Preferences, then click the 
Fax tab and check the Receive 
Faxes option. Adjust the 
number of rings, and check 
whether you want to file the 
fax in a designated folder, 
email it, and/or print it. 

If you need features 

like bulk faxing, cover-page templates, logging, or automation, you’ll 
have to step up to a commercial fax app such as FaxSTF ($89.95, 
www.smithmicro.com) or Page Sender ($29.95, www.smilesoftware.com). 





Top: Faxing is as easy as printing. This dialog 
comes up after clicking Fax in the Print dialog. 
Above: Wanna receive a fax on your Mac? Turn 
on that capability in System Preferences. 



TIME SAVINGS 

No more walking down the hall to the fax machine. At one fax a week, that 
saves us about 20 minutes a month— 
and ensures we get even less exercise. 



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So Is Panther Worth $129? 

ROUNDING OFF, Panther can save you more than 256 hours a year. If you earn 
$30 an hour, that’s $7,680 in savings. If you earn $10 an hour, that’s $2,560 
In savings. Even if you earn just $1 an hour (like if you’re a career juror or a 
really bad stripper), you still save $256. Bottom line: At any wage, you’ll save 
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develop a Form-based 
application. Flash 
stashes the Timeline 
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Studio MX 2004 

WEB-DEVELOPMENT SUITE 



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Dreamweaver, Fireworks, 
and Flash MX 2004 trials, 
and FreeHand MX trial 



C ombining two top Web-development tools, Dreamweaver and Flash, with 
Fireworks for graphics and FreeHand for illustration, Macromedia’s Studio MX 
2004 is a Web monster; huge and massively powerful— but none too spry. Dreamweaver 
adds improved CSS and FTP, plus other acronymical support. Flash Professional has 
advanced video features, refortified ActionScript, and dead-easy Timeline Effects. 
Fireworks sports improved vector tools and text antialiasing options. This Studio 
MX update brings all four apps to new levels of integration, with more shared tools 
and resources than before. Thanks to a thoroughly unified interface built around 
Macromedia’s groupable docking Panels and context-sensitive Property Inspector, 
it’s easy to maintain consistent and efficient work habits— this partially redeems the 
sluggish performance that plagues all four of Studio MX 2004’s applications. 



FLASH MX 2004 PROFESSIONAL 

Flash, the most-changed app in the 
Studio 2004 lineup, is now available 
in two versions: Flash and Flash 
Professional— the latter includes 
advanced features for working with 
video apps; easy publishing for cell 
phones and PDAs; and true visual 
programming using Screens (also 
called Forms) that assist you in creating 
presentations and interactive, data- 
driven Web applications using a series 
of screens instead of the usual Timeline. 
Prebound data components, such as 
text-entry fields and check boxes, let 



you tap into your database with no 
coding. Alternately, you can bust out 
Flash’s ActionScript editor and hack 
custom interactions. 

The new Timeline Effects feature 
makes simple animation child’s play: 
just lay down a symbol, select its frame 
in the Timeline, and pick Timeline 
Effects from the Insert menu. The 
Transition effect let you set fades and 
wipes; Transform moves, scales, rotates, 
or colorizes the symbol. Blur, Drop 
Shadow, Expand, and Explode effects 
are self-explanatory. All Timeline Effects 
let you specify basic parameters such 



as the number of frames the effect will 
span, the speed at which it will play, the 
level of its alpha-channel transparency, 
and other effect-specific settings. 
Unfortunately, some effects preview and 
apply slowly— and occasionally choke, 
rendering an obscure JavaScript error 
message in lieu of the desired effect. 

While Flash’s new Timeline Effects 
and Screens feature saves time and 
tedium, ActionScript 2.0 will impede 
Flash ActionScript developers— now a 
bona fide object-oriented programming 
language, ActionScript 2.0 is completely 
different than its predecessors. Deep 
geeks will appreciate that ActionScript 
2.0 Is fully ECMA-262 Edition 4 
compliant— if you’re fluent in languages 
like C++ or java, you’ll be right at home. 

The rest of us can still point-and- 
clickto assign Symbol and Timeline 
Behaviors that control embedded 
video, audio, and Flash movie clips, 
and respond to users’ mouse clicks, 
rollovers, and other triggers. As you 
apply behaviors, you can watch the 
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but its output is excellent. Most 
users may never touch Flash’s 
advanced scripting features, 
but its visual programming 
tools helped us create amazing 
animations and interactive 
applications without overseeing 
orthinking about its geeky 
underpinnings. 

For our dough, Flash 
Professional is the star 
ofStudioMX2004. 

Whether you’re making 
simple animated eye 
candy, advanced audio 
and video presentations, 
or complex, data-driven 
Web applications, Flash’s 
customizable, project- 
specific interface makes it easy to focus 
on the task. Also, for many tasks Flash 
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The backbone of Studio MX 2004, 
Dreamweaver, provides more— and 
more-thorough—integration than its 
peers. Say you need to tweak a graphic 
after placing it in a Dreamweaver Web 
page, in previous versions, the Property 
Inspector’s Edit button would launch 
that graphic file in an external image 
editor— Fireworks by default. MX 
2004 brings some new editing icons: 
optimize (in FireWorks), crop, resample, 
brightness and contrast, and sharpness. 
The latter four work seamlessly within 
Dreamweaver. Optimize takes you 
directly to FireWorks’ Optimize dialog 
and bounces you back to Dreamweaver 
when you’re done. 

When we downloaded a large site 
into Dreamweaver’s Files window for 
testing, the import-progress window 
kept popping up in front of the other 
apps— and displayed an ominous 
server-not-responding message while 
the files streamed in. This oddball 
behavior happened over an SSH-secure 
FTP connection but not over standard 



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Effects to transform FTP-while not ideal, if 

this star with a few this is the trade-off for 
mouse clicks; the Dreamweaver’s new tighter- 

same project would security SFTP support, we’ll 

have been fairly tolerate it. File transfer over 

tedious using last traditional FTP was smoother 

year’s Flash. than in previous versions— in 

fact, Macromedia’s claims 
of improved FTP support 
passed our muster, sustaining 
prolonged, multiple-file uploads 
and downloads to a number of 
different servers. Note that we said 
Dreamweaver’s FTP support— Flash and 
FireWorks share Dreamweaver’s FTP 
service but not its SFTP support. 

Once we finished importing a 
few thousand pages, Dreamweaver 
unexpectedly quit— though, to be fair, 



those pages contained plenty 
of skanky code, dead links, and 
orphaned files. 

Dreamweaver’s core function- 
building Web pages— is stronger 
than ever. For example. Cascading 
Style Sheets (CSS) is now the 
default for text formatting. It’s 
dreamy Indeed, creating clean 
tag- and class-style definitions 
for document-wide and in-line 
formatting, respectively. You can 
fine-tune Dreamweaver’s CSS 
handling via the Property inspector 
and the Tag panel, or ditch it 
entirely by unchecking Use CSS Instead 
Of HTML Tags In Preferences. 

For layout positioning, you can use 
CSS Layers or good ol’ reliable tables— 
both are present in the Insert panel’s 
Common collection. Dreamweaver’s 
all-too-familiar table-width kludgery 
has improved, thanks in part to the 
new Table Width guide, which labels 
onscreen tables according to their row 
and overall widths (the values change 
dynamically as you resize). You also get 
mini action menus for resetting widths, 
adding columns or rows, and merging 
and splitting cells. 

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Web Application panel makes it easy 
to create database connections and 
queries, but installing and configuring 
the MySQL database and PHP engine is 
no picnic. Even after we set everything 
up and verified via a Web browser 
that it worked, Dreamweaver couldn’t 
negotiate the absolute and relative 
paths to our testing server. We suspect 
the problem is related to Dreamweaver’s 
local addressing: We experienced 
inconsistent unable-to-connect errors 
whether we specified localhost or 
127.0.0.1 as Dreamweaver’s host 
machine, though 127.0.0.1 proved the 
more reliable of the two. 

Dreamweaver has reigned king of 
Web design for several years, but the 
monarch is showing its age. MX 2004 
isn’t a huge leap from last year’s MX 



FIREWORKS MX 2004 & 

FREEHAND MX 

Fireworks MX 2004 adds a smattering 
of new bitmap tools— mainly red-eye 
removal, updated Live Effects, and 
powerful new antialiasing options 
for better text graphics— and new 
Auto Shape vector-drawing tools that 
help you draw basic shapes or easily 
manipulate the included Auto Shape 
Objects (such as a clock, 3D cube, cog, 
and cartoon-style word bubble). 

Live Effects are awesome for custom 
text treatments. Just type the text, then 
adjust it every which way: font face, 
color, size, alignment, kerning, and 
leading. You can even add motion blur, 
bevel, glow, and other effects. Custom 
antialiasing settings let you fine-tune 



the level of oversampling, sharpness, 
and strength. The catch is that you have 
to rasterize text or convert it to paths 
before adding effects. You can, however, 
change styles and effects at any time, 
and save your own Styles for future use. 

Despite Macromedia’s claims of 
improved performance, FireWorks takes 
forever to accomplish some tasks— most 
notably applying the various new 
blurring and sharpening Live Effects. 
Even after the epic progress bar shows 
it’s finished, the app stalls and doesn’t 
respond to mouse or keyboard input for 
several additional seconds. 

Fireworks smokes Photoshop at Web 
graphics. JPEG photos, GIF bitmaps, 
and text-based graphics generated with 
FireWorks’ new text-graphic generator 
look fantastic and boast smaller file 
sizes than comparable 
Photoshop-optimized files. 
But if we had to choose, 
we’d pick Photoshop for its 
superior photo processing 
and solid Web graphics. 

Finally, there’s Freehand 
MX— but since it hasn’t 
been updated to the 2004 
designation, we’ll politely 
refer you to our Freehand 
MX review (see june/03, 
p49). For the record, the 
2004 versions of FireWorks 
and Flash pack enough 
type-savvy and vector tools 
to make Freehand that much 
more irrelevant, especially to the suite’s 
intended audience of Web heads. 

All four apps share some handy new 
features, such as massive contextual 
menus, completely customizable 
keyboard shortcuts, and smarter-than- 
undo history panels. 

Some things about Studio MX 2004 
are annoying, such as its unfortunate 
product-activation scheme, which 
enables the apps on one Mac and only 
one Mac— though you can deactivate 
and reactivate on another Mac as often 
as you like. Most annoying is the entire 
suite’s erratic performance— we watched 
entirely too many spinning beach balls 
during regular operations and when 
launching and switching between apps. 
Plus, we experienced random errors and 
occasional app crashes. 

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FireWorks makes short work 
of creating pie charts, but it 
can*t build one for you from 
spreadsheet data as some 
illustration programs can. 



and buy this upgrade for its increased 
integration and the smattering of new 
features in FireWorks and Dreamweaver. 
The new Flash Professional makes 
Studio MX 2004 worth its upgrade 
price.— A///CO Coucouvanis 




Dreamweaver MX 2004 



GOOD NEWS: CSS! Better table handling. 
Basic image- and Flash-editing tools onboard 
BAD NEWS: Can't save custom panel 
arrangements. Still 
has window- redra\w, 
performance, and 
stability issues. 



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compression. Awesome antialiasing options. 
BAD NEWS: Painfully slow for photo editing, 
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drawing tools. Well integrated with Flash and 
FireWorks. 

BAD NEWS: Clunky, 
chunky performance. 

Uncooperative Objects 
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COMPANY: Macromedia 

CONTACT: 800-457-1774 Or 415-252-2000, 

www.macromedia.com 

PRICE; $999 (Flash Pro Edition), $899 (Flash 

Standard Edition), $299 and up (upgrades) 

REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz G3 orfaster, Mac OS 

10.2.6 or later, 256MB RAM (512 recommended), 

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Soundtrack 

MUSIC-COMPOSITION SOFTWARE 



M aking good music is a difficult 
endeavor, even for those with 
talent. Apple’s fantastic Soundtrack 
software can help. This tool for creating 
royalty-free musical accompaniment 
for video work was originally bundled 
with Final Cut Pro 4. Now Soundtrack is 
a standalone app that’s a blast to use 
and capable of generating truly useable 
music for real-world applications. 

At the core of Soundtrack are 
4,000 loops of prerecorded music, 
representing everything from 
straightforward rock drum patterns 
to more esoteric, worldly offerings 
such as tabla and djembe drums, 
standard jazz piano meanderings, 
Hammond B-3 organ passages, and 
even searing hard-rock guitar licks. 

If searching through 4,000 chunks of 
sound seems Intimidating, fear not: 
Soundtrack’s Media Manager window 
sorts loops by Instrument, genre, 
tempo, and a variety of other factors, 
so you can quickly track down that 
elusive Beatlesque guitar jangle. All 
of the loops are available at 24-bit/ 

You won’t be embarrassed to 
use it for professional work. 

96kHz, and— of critical concern— 
they’re good, meaning you won’t be 
embarrassed to use them for paying, 
professional work. 

Once you find your riff, simply drag 
it into the main timeline, where you 
can stretch it to fill as much time as 
you want. As you drag other clips into 
the timeline (up to 126 tracks), they 
automatically synchronize to each 
other— this works even when you 
audition loops by previewing them 
from the media manager. You can 
pitch-shift individual tracks, though 
trying to shift one more than a few 
tuning steps up or down causes some 
artifacting (noise). Also, while you 
can dramatically shift the tempo 
of the entire composition, you can’t 




Soundtrack’s 
Media Manager 
(left) organizes the 
app’s 4,000 clips 
by instrument and 
genre, and displays 
the tempo, key, 
and length in beats 
of each loop. Note 
the Volume and 
, Pan envelopes for 
the synthesizer 
track in the main 
window (right). 



change the tempo of individual 
instrumental tracks. 

It’s easy to build up a happenin’ bit 
of musical mayhem quickly, and that’s 
when the fun really starts. In addition 
to envelope-style controls for volume 
and panning (placement of the sound 
in the stereo field), there are quite a few 
included effects modules for spicing 
up individual tracks. The standard 
array of equalization and reverbs 
are included, as well as a variety of 
offerings which have been repurposed 
from the popular Logic sequencing 
and recording software (also owned by 
Apple). Modulation Delay takes echoes 
and makes them swim in swirly waters; 
Sub-Bass boosts lower frequencies for 
that hip-hop bass badness that pushes 
subwoofers to their limits. Some of the 
included effects may overwhelm audio 
newbies, but hey, it’s never too late to 
learn a new way to mangle sounds! 

One capability that takes Soundtrack 
to the major leagues is automation: You 
can record virtually any modification to 
any parameter, slider, or control, which 
allows you to create complex mixing 
effects, dynamic sound effects and 
much more. Changing the delay time 
and wet-dry signal mix, or moving a 
guitar solo around the stereo field while 
it’s playing are the bread and butter of 
studio engineers, and these types of 
automation effects are all implemented 




Audio purists will adore the capable 
graphic and parametric equalizers and 
Noise Gate filters, while hackers will 
wreak havoc with delays and distortion. 

at the core of Soundtrack. 

Keeping Soundtrack fresh and 
relevant is its compatibility with audio 
files in the venerable Acid format, which 
includes slice and looping information— 
the key to Soundtrack’s tempo-shifting 
voodoo. A separate, included Loop 
utility allows you to perform sample- 
slicing to your own imported audio 
files, but we found it wasn’t as powerful 
as other dedicated loop-editing 
programs, such as Acid or ReCycle, when 
automatically performing this task. 

If you need sweet-sounding music for 
your multimedia work and don’t happen 
to know any talented musicians, say 
hello to a virtual band even your mother 
could love— one that won’t clean out the 
fridge after rehearsals.— Oawd Biedny 



COMPANY: Apple 
CONTACT: 800-795-1000 or 
408-996-1010, www.apple.com 
PRICE: $299 



REQUIREMENTS: 500MHz 
G4, Mac OS 10.2.5, 384MB 
RAM, 5GB disk space 



GOOD NEWS: Excelient-quality loops. Extremely easy to use. 
Real-time feedback of all controls. Extensive automation options. 
BAD NEWS: Hefty system requirements. Mediocre pitch shifting 
at many settings. 



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Canvas 9 Professional Edition 



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no SVG (scalable 
vector graphics) import 
option, despite an option to export SVG. 

Canvas’s new SprIteEffects 
technology lets you apply filters 
and effects to vector objects while 
preserving the objects’ editability— this 
is common with bitmap graphics, but it’s 
a huge addition for vector artists, who 
can now see their effect in place and 
tweak it (the effect and/or the original 
object) without rasterizing or exporting 
the image. Rudimentary 3D tools are 
available too: You can extrude paths and 
text, and rotate paths to create solids, 
though you can’t work directly with any 
standard 3D formats like 3DF or DFX. 



that some of the plug-ins might not 
work, but things seemed to be OK. You 
can open layered Photoshop documents, 
and have the option to import them with 
layers intact, or as flattened objects. 
Exporting to GIF or PNG involves a 
certain amount of guesswork, as there’s 
no preview of how your chosen color 
palette looks on your image until you 
open it up after saving. Strangely, when 
you select the curiously named Save As 
Web Images - GIFJPG option, you get a 
preview. Huh. 

Vector art is still Canvas’s strong 
suit. The drawing operations have a 
decidedly mathematical feel, and offer 
more in terms of measurement and 
precision than other vector-art apps. For 
example. Canvas boasts a 
maximum document size of 
2,000 miles by 2,000 miles 
(yes, miles); 2 billion control 
points on a polygon or Bezier 
curve; 2 billion objects per 
document; zooming in or out 
to an insane 114,000 percent; 
and decimal precision to the 
millionth place, which is the 
stuff technical illustrators 
and scientific plotters 



A jack-of-all-graphics 
software, Canvas 
packs bitmap-image 
editing, vector drawing, 
page layout, Web 
composition, and 
a number of other 
capabilities into one 
mildly priced solution 
suitable for most mortal 
designers. Version 9 
features a slew of new 
additions, including 
improved import 
options, integration 
with ACDSee 
media-management 
software, advanced 
math functions, and 
improved scripting. 

Usually when an 
application tries to be all things to 
all people, the result is mediocre 
at best. Not so with Canvas. It was 
among the first image editors running 
natively under Mac OS X, and this 
release is generally a pleasure to 
use, if a bit overwhelming. The app’s 
requirements are moderate, and it 
felt relatively snappy even on our 
three-year-old 450MHz PowerMac G4. 

The bitmap-image editing tools will 
be familiar to anyone who’s manipulated 
raster art, and Canvas even sniffs out 
your default Photoshop Plug-Ins folder 
if you have one. Our 
plug-ins folder caused 
Canvas to throw an 
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How deep is Canvas? 
This Intricate design 
Is a mathematical 
representation of the 
366 days in a leap 
year divided by the 
16,777,216 shades 
of RGB color— Canvas 
transposed the 
information to show HSV 
values graphically. 

dream of— to get more 
precision, you’d have 
to step up to dedicated 
CAD or scientific 
number-crunching 
software. One odd 
omission is that there’s 



Canvas isn’t going to replace Maya any 
time soon, but it’s easy to use and great 
for quick 3D effects. If you’re attempting 
to import illustrator documents, be sure 
to save them without PDF compatibility, 
as it befuddles Canvas. 

The Math Expression 2-D Plot is 
geek-art nirvana: It converts equations 
into vector graphics (polar or Cartesian), 
which is perfect if you need an exact 
logarithmic spiral or happen to know 
the math for whatever effect you need 
(it’s also a fun way to experiment 
with art and math). The measurement 
palette includes a number of tools 
for calculating distances and angles, 
Canvas supports insane levels and the values automatically update 
of scale and precision only a to match as you manipulate objects 

technical illustrator could love. onscreen. This feature works well in 



52 MacAddict January 2004 





conjunction with the rewritten Smart 
Mouse, which allows you to customize 
how and where your cursor snaps— 
including horizontal and vertical grids; 
object points and paths; angular, 
tangential, and parallel constraints; 
and more. 

The Publication Editor is where 
Canvas falls short; it’s fine for a basic 
newsletter or Web page, but if you're 
planning anything more ambitious, you 
need a dedicated page-layout program 
like InDesign. Canvas should include 
import and export filters for InDesign, 
Pagemaker, or Quark files, but it 
doesn't. Advanced features like hanging 
punctuation and multiple master pages 
are also lacking, and the few included 
templates are truly hideous. On the 
plus side, the Publication Editor's text- 
handling capabilities are good, and 
allow for fine tuning of tracking, kerning, 
and the like (though the process is a bit 
clunky). Exporting to Web documents 
gives you a choice of HTML or XHTML, 
and inline tags or CSS. You can export 
SWF (Flash) documents, but don’t 
expect a whole lot of options or any 
animation. Strangely, the Save to Web 
wizard said we had the option to save 
our files directly to a server, but this 
wasn't the case— its Save dialog had 
no Save button. 

The presentation module is 



unimpressive, but fairly straightforward; 
at first, it choked on a PowerPoint 
presentation we tried to import, 
but when we tried again with the 
same presentation, it worked. There 
is, however, no PowerPoint export 
option— you're stuck with QuickTime 
export, which exports your slide show as 
a MOV file. The included templates are 
predictably cheesy— if you make more 
than two presentations per year or have 




Canvas comes with a DVD full of extras, 
including access to online images such as 
the Aquaesqe Apple button above (which 
is no doubt a lawsuit waiting to happen). 



Thanks to its mad math skills and 
logarithmic savvy. Canvas can 
translate cryptic equations into 
visual designs, and vice versa. 

to collaborate on a presentation, try 
Apple's Keynote instead. 

You can automate your work in 
Canvas with Sequences (like 
Photoshop's Actions), or with custom 
AppleScripts. A number of prefab 
Sequences come preinstalled, and 
you can record your own— either 
way, you can edit them at any time. 
AppleScripting is much more powerful, 
but Canvas isn’t AppleScript recordable, 
so it's also much more difficult. If you 
intend to share your scripts with your 
Canvas-using pals who run Windows, 
you can use Sequences, which work 
cross-platform. 

Canvas 9 also supports scientific 
and GIS mapping data, but the required 
add-ons cost an extra 200 bucks 
apiece— unless you work with DICOM 
files and/or GeoSpace coordinates, you 
won't miss these features. The Scientific 
and Mapping editions are also sold as 
complete packages instead of add-ons. 
The boxed version comes with a DVD of 
extras, including a boatload of fonts and 
clip art. There's even an online search 
function built in, but the palette is 
missing a menu icon (one that's clearly 
visible in the Windows version), and 
the copyright and usability of its online 
Images Isn't Immediately apparent, as 
Canvas seems to pluck Images randomly 
from the ether. Otherwise, the Included 
art is predictably tres gauche, though 
we imagine the generic electrical 
symbols and technical icons will get 
more use, given the intended audience. 
Included typefaces (provided by URW) 
are dismal as well, with a few exceptions 
(Gudrun Zapf-Von Hesse's Alcuin, 
for example). 

Canvas is a great value fora single- 
person shop, a student seeking a bit 
of everything in one box, or someone 
with highly specialized geographical 
or scientific imaging needs. Casual 
users can find cheaper alternatives 
piecemeal.— P gl// Vbon 



COMPANY: ACD Systems 

CONTACT: 800-733-6322, www.deneba.com 

PRICE: $99.95 to $399.95 (depending on version) 



REQUIREMENTS: G3, 

Mac OS 10.2, 128MB RAM, 
100MB disk space 



GOOD NEWS: Humane academic pricing. 
Multipurpose. Easy 3D. 

BAD NEWS: No import or export for page layout. 



No SVG import. Ugly templates. 



Mac/lddict RATED 

ooooo 

GREAT 



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Fighting animated 
armor (left), the 
undead. and 
skeleton warriors— 
not to mention 
the evil priests 
(above)— makes for 
some long nights in 
Neverwinter land. 



Neverwinter Nights 



ROLE-PLAYING GAME 

W e planned to start this review with 
the bad news, but there isn’t any. 
Neverwinter Nights Is one of the best 
and biggest RPG titles ever. 

An engaging story sprawls over four 
chapters, from the plague-ridden city of 
Neverwinter to nearby Luskan; then into 
a monster-strewn area called the Spine 
of the World where you battle goblins, 
wolves, zombies, golems, and dragons; 
and finally into a raging battle between 
armies of good and evil. Along the way, 
you meet hundreds of characters, carry 
out numerous quests, and gathertons 
of treasure. 

Gameplay follows Third Edition 
Dungeons & Dragons rules, which will 
please purists and veterans. If you 
don’t understand Third Edition D&D 
subtleties, however, don’t despair. Your 
Mac does all the die-tossing and number 
work silently, so even role-playing 
newcomers can fight like pros. 

You can create your own hero or 
heroine, or choose an existing character. 
From there, you’re pretty much on your 
own. Instead of going with an expedition 
party, you set off adventuring and 
treasure hunting 
with a single hired 
henchman, racking up 
experience points by 



completing missions and slicing hordes 
of bad guys to pieces. 

Treasure is scattered everywhere— 
potions, gold coins, books, weapons, 
precious stones, rings, and armor. Use 
what you can and sell the rest. If you run 
out of space In your inventory, put your 
excess goodies In magic bags (these 
bags not only take up less space, but 
also reduce the weight of some objects}. 



GOT MODS? 



You need a PC to create mods for 
Neverwinter Nights, but mods 
created on PCs work on your Mac. 
Check the following Web sites for free 
downloads to extend your game. 
www.bioware.com 
http://nwvaultign.com 
www.stratics.com 
www.planetneverwinter.com 
www.sorcerers.net 
www.ladiesofneverwinter.com 

Place the .mod file in the Modules 
folder of your Neverwinter Nights 
package. If there is also a .hakfile 
(which introduces new weapons, 
armor, creatures, and so on), put it 
in the folder named Hak. Then, when 
starting a new game, select Other 
Modules, and load your favorite. 



You can switch 
weapons quickly 
using Quickslots, 
which allows you 
to swap your two- 
handed broadsword 
fora crossbow or an 
axe and shield with a 
single keystroke. This 
kind of speed sets up 
some super battles: 
Zoom in your view to 
checkout the killer 
combat animations. 
Adversaries dodge, 
parry, and strike at 
each other realistically. They die well 
too, with all the appropriate gurgles 
and groans. 

If your henchman dies, don’t fret. 

Just use an Item called the Recall 
Stone, which transports you to a home 
temple where you’ll find the henchman 
resurrected. There you can also heal 
your own wounds and buy or sell 
equipment. When you die, you can 
respawn here in the temple at a loss of 
some gold and experience points, oryou 
can load your last save and try again. 
Save often. 

But don’t just reload and plunge in. 
Stop for a breather and think it over. 
Some enemies need fresh strategy. 

And if you win a battle but are severely 
wounded, use the rest key Instead of 
expensive healing potions. A quick rest 
will restore all your health and hit points. 

All that’s missing is the Aurora 
Toolset, a PC-only editing set you can 
use to create mods to customize your 
adventures. But as we reported a few 
months ago (“The Next Level,” May/03, 
p34), data files and mods created by PC 
players work just fine on the Mac. And 
there are hundreds, maybe thousands, 
of them available by now— see “Got 
Mods?” left, for sources. 

When you finish a computer-based 
game, the appeal for single-play usually 
diminishes. Not with this game. With 
unlimited adventures waiting foryou to 
download them, Neverwinter Nights is 
a game you can play for months or even 
years— John Lee 



ON THE 

^DISC 

Neverwinter Nights 
demo 



COMPANY: MacSoft 


REQUIREMENTS: 450MHz G4 


GOOD NEWS: Huge, sprawling RPG. Gripping story. 


Mac>4ddlct RATED 


CONTACT: 763-231-8100, 


orfaster, Mac OS 10.2.6 or later, 


Tons of quests. Lots of action. Excellent animations. 


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www.macsottgames.com 


256MB RAM, 32MB video card. 


^ textures, and voice acting. 


PRICE: $49.99 


2.1GB disk space 


BAD NEWS: No Aurora Tooiset in the Mac version. 


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Pyro DV Drive 



DV-CAPTURING HARD DRIVE 

T ransferring video footage from a 
digital camcorder to your Mac’s hard 
drive is a tedious task-which is why 
videographers dream of a straight-to- 
hard-dlsk DV recording solution. ADS 
Technologies has the wake-up call: a 
hard drive that can ride along on your 
belt, capturing footage from your video 
camera and converting it on the fly Into 
editable DV. 

A fantastic addition to any DV 
photographer’s ditty bag. 

The Pyro DV Drive houses a 30GB 
2.5-inch IDE drive hooked up to an 
Oxford 911 chipset and a Lithium Ion 
battery that you can recharge via either 
your Mac’s FireWire port or the included 
power supply. Out in the field, just turn 
it on, run a FireWire cable from your 
camera to the drive, and then marvel as 
the Pyro DV obeys your camera’s record 
and stop commands and saves shots 
as sequentially numbered files. Back 
in your editing studio (or your home). 



The compact Pyro is one 
of few drives capable of 
sucking video out of a 
camera In QuickTime 
MOV, Canopus AVI, or 
raw DV format. 

the drive connects to 
your Mac like any other 
FireWire drive, with your 
captured video files neatly 
stowed inside the Media 
folder. Bonus: the Pyro 
DV Drive comes with 
everything you need: 
4-pin-to-6-pin and 6-pin- 
to-6-pin FireWire cables, 
a battery-chargingAC 
power supply, and a suave 
leather carrying case that 
you can wear on your belt. 

The drive can capture 
video in raw DV format, 
but you can configure 
it to capture in MOV or AVI formats as 
well. Our Sony, Canon, and Panasonic 
DV camcorders got along fine with the 
Pyro, and the raw DV quality was as 
good as each camera could produce. The 
battery delivered more than four hours 
of recording time, which outlived the 
drive’s 30GB capacity. And if you forget 
to erase the Pyro DV before taking it out 
on another shoot, just shove a paperclip 
into the quick-erase button hole to 
wipe out everything in the Media folder 
but spare anything else you may have 
stashed on the drive. 

The only drawback is that it’s easy 
to accidentally press the drive’s Power 
button while recording— the belt- 
mounting carry case helps you avoid 
this, but a hold switch would be smart. 

The Pyro DV Drive works exactly as 
advertised and is a fantastic addition 
to any DV photographer’s ditty bag. If 
you work on tight schedules, the time 
you save on video conversion makes the 
Pyro worth its relatively hefty price. 
—Rick Sanchez 



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COMPANY: ADS Technologies REQUIREMENTS: RreWire-equipped Mac and 

CONTACT: 800-888-5244, www.adstech.com digital video cam, Mac OS 9 or later 
PRICE: $650 (street) 



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GOOD NEWS: Long battery life. Works exactly as advertised. 
Huge time saver. 

BAD NEWS: High price for storage size. No button-lock feature. 





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Elura 50 

DIGITAL VIDEO CAMCORDER 




oday*s MiniDV camcorders are living 
up to their mini moniker—and the 
Elura 50 is one of the smallest weVe 
seen so far. This puny lightweight is 
about the size of a cereal snack pack, 
allowing you to tuck It into your jacket 
pocket and take It along everywhere. 
Unfortunately, due to its lackluster video 
performance, the only place you’ll want 
to take this camera will be back to the 
store where you bought it. 

The Elura 50’s feature set has a lot 
going for it. It can capture still images 
at 1,024 by 768 to a MultiMedia Card, 
Secure Digital card (an 8MB SD card 
included), or DV tape. It also features a 
lOx optical zoom, but we recommend 
that you avoid its ludicrously pixilated 
400x digital zoom like you would a 
Windows zealot. More welcome are 
image stabilization, 16-bit/48kHz 
sound, auto and manual controls, 
exposure compensation. Direct Print 
support, nine digital effects (fun, 
but only Black & White and Sepia are 
practical), nine wipe/fader effects, 
two special effects, slide show, and 
other nifty capabilities. You also get 



In a classic case of form over 
function, this svelte little 
camcorder looks great, but the 
video it captures doesn’t. 

a rechargeable battery, but its 
lifespan is limited— we averaged 
about 30 minutes per charge. A 
battery charger is included, as 
are a USB cable (to snag still 
pics), a power adapter, a wireless 
remote, and video cables— but 
there’s no FireWire cable to 
connect the camera to your Mac. 

Shooting was simple; the 
controls were easy to use with 
standard menu navigation, but 
gripping the tiny lil’ thing took 
some getting used to because 
of its vertical design. The sound 
quality was excellent when 
shooting in quiet rooms. The mic 
picked up audio well— maybe a little 
too well. It allowed us to eavesdrop 
on a conversation from across a quiet 
room, but on other occasions it picked 
up air conditioning and wind noise— and 
although there is a wind-filtering audio 
setting, sound quality suffers when 
using it. 

Under sunny skies, the Elura exposed 
scenes well with realistic color, even 
when shooting scenes with harsh 
reflections. The image quality, however, 
was mushy even in still images, and 
linear artifacts bordered contrasting 
edges. Nothing looked sharp, and 
panning the camera only exacerbated 
the creamed -corn effect. We did get 
slightly better video when we stood 
the camcorder on a ledge, but let’s 
be honest: No one’s going to seek out 
ledges or carry a tripod everywhere just 
to get good footage. And no, we weren’t 
overly caffeinated— and yes, we had the 
image stabilizer turned on. 

Indoors, things got worse. In a 
sunlit room, the camcorder balanced 
exposures well, but soft noise prevailed. 
Under room lights, the noisy video 




resembled curdled cream. In low light, 
we had hardly any noise— but hardly any 
picture either, just black. No prob— the 
camcorder features the almighty Super 
Night mode. Sounds great, but in 
practice, it exposed some objects at the 
expense of others, and the increased 
noise level obliterated all clarity. 

If Canon could somehow transplant 
the stellar image quality of its digital still 
cameras into the Elura 50, it might have 
one heckuva camcorder. Until then, we’ll 
keep looking.— /Cr/s Fong 




QUALITY? 



Contrast When capturing objects 
with contrasting edges, the Elura 
produced linear artifacts that re- 
sulted in a coloring book-like effect. 




Sunshine Though the still images 
we captured 
had resolution 
enough for 3 
by 5 prints, 
serene scenes 
were blasted 
with excessive 
noise. 



Indoors While 
appreciate the 
Elura’s soft 
video-image 
quality, we 
didn’t. 



Cybil Sheppard might 



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a 



COMPANY: Canon 


REQUIREMENTS: FireWire- 


GOOD NEWS: Ubercompact. Realistic color in well lit 


Mac4ddlCt RATED 


CONTACT: 800-652-2666, 


equipped Mac, Mac OS 9 or later 


scenes. Nice crop o’ features, 


ooooo 


www.canondv.com 




BAD NEWS; Wimpy video performance in low light Soft, 


PRICE: $799 




noisy images with linear artifacts. Super Night mode is a joke. 


so-so 



56 MacAddfct January 2004 



photography BY KRIS FONG 







REVIEWS 



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Rio Cali 

FLASH-BASED MP3 PLAYER 
or people who listen to music 
primarily while doing some sort of 
rigorous sport, the iPod is not the ideal 
music player. Tods are slightly bulky 
(especially in a fanny pack), and even the 
best hard disk-based players can crash 
when jarred. Plus, runners don’t browse 
through albums mid-sprint. Active 
types who want a small, basic portable 
music player should consider the flash 
memory-based 256MB Rio Cali. 

The 256MB Cali is lightweight (1.8 
ounces) and rugged (we dropped ours 
often), with a stylish shape and khaki- 
green color. It transfers music through 
slow-but-reliable USB 1.1, and you can 
supplement its internal memory with 
your own MMC or SD cards. The onboard 
menu provides quick access to features 




The Rio Cali is stylish, compact, and a good 
workout companion, but it doesn’t support 
iTunes Playlists or AAC- encoded music. 



such as an FM tuner, stopwatch, five- 
band EQ, repeat and shuffle, power 
manager, and a Bookmarks capability, 



which lets you set a point in a song 
that you can jump to later. The best 
part: Sennheiserclip-behind-the-ear 
earphones come with the player. 

Here’s what we don’t love: First, the 
set-up instructions are wrong. They say 
you need to reinstall iTunes, but you 
don’t. All you have to do is fish around 
on the bundled iTunes CD and drag the 
Rio plug-in (called RioCali Plugin. bundle) 
to your iTunes Library {username > 
Library > iTunes > iTunes Plug-ins). 
Second, the Cali won’t play iTunes Music 
Store AAC files. 

Still, the 256MB Cali is tiny, rugged, 
and $100 cheaper than a 10GB iPod— 
though without the ’Pod’s browsable 
Playlists, auto syncing, calendar, and 
dozens of other features— and it works 
well. If you’re more athlete than feature- 
obsessed audiophile, it might be all you 
need—Narasu Rebbapragada 




t 



COMPANY: Rio REQUIREMENTS; USB- 

CONTACT: 800-468-5846 or 408-565-7000, equipped Mac, Mac OS X or iater, 

www.rioaudio.com 35MB disk space 

PRICE: $169.99 (128MB), $199.99 (256MB) 



GOOD NEWS: Stylish. Compact. Works solidly. 
BAD NEWS: Won’t play AAC files. Doesn’t support 
iTunes Playlists, 



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Wireless IntelliMouse 
Explorer 

WIRELESS MOUSE 

M icrosoft’s IntelliMouse Explorer 
has always been one of our favorite 
mice. It just/ee/s right— and the newest 
wireless version is no different. 

What /s different, though, is that you 
can now scroll vertically and horizontally, 
using a scroll wheel that tilts from left to 
right. Horizontal scrolling is especially 
useful when navigating wide, unwieldy 
Excel spreadsheets and fat Finder windows 
in column view. Unfortunately, many apps 
don’t yet support horizontal scrolling— get to 
work, developers! 

The new IntelliMouse is wireless, has five programmable buttons, 
and comes in four colors, including the one we tested— black leather. 
Fashion deficiency aside, this is one fine rodent.— Cot/?/ /.u 

COMPANY: Microsoft PRICE: $64,95 (black leather), $54.95 (metallic-gray, 

CONTACT: 800-426-9400, platinum, or metallic-blue plastic) 
www.microsoft.com/hardware REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.1 to 10.2.x, 15MB disk space 




GOOD NEWS: Horizontal scrolling is very useful, 
Mouse feels great. 

BAD NEWS: Horizontal scrolling not supported in 
all apps. 



MacAddict RATED 

ooooo 

GREAT 



Ignore the gross 
leather, and this mouse 
is an fine specimen. 



VS4121 

SPEAKER SET 

A key difference 
between good 
speakers and loud 
speakers is balance— 
not left-right balance, 
but tonal balance 




between the bass, 
midrange, and high- These speakers sound as refined as 
frequency sounds. they look. 

Altec Lansing’s 

VS4121 set makes the grade, providing more midrange 
than most speaker sets designed for computer use. Each 
of the shielded satellites incorporates a downward-firing 
midrange cone and Altec’s proven Micro Drivers for highs. 
The 6.5-inch, wood-encased sub easily keeps up and can 
thump the floor if you crank up the base via the controls 
mounted on the left-side satellite. 



These speakers are a great companion to a desktop Mac, 
but no substitute fora home stereo— Niko Coucouvonis 



COMPANY: Altec Lansing PRICE: $129.95 

CONTACT: 800-258-3288, REQUIREMENTS: 1/8-inch minijack or RCA 
www.altecmm.com audio source 

Mac4ddict RATED 

OOOOO 

GREAT 



GOOD NEWS: Great audio balance. 
BAD NEWS: Pricey. Could be louder. 



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Media Reader for iPod 

PORTABLE MEDIA-CARD READER 

C onvenience usually involves a 
compromise of portability and 
capability. Case in point: Belkin’s new 
Media Reader for iPod. It’s the perfect 
conduit between your digital camera 
and the acres of storage space in your 
iPod— but it’s about twice as big as our 
vision of a digital-lifestyle gadget. 

Four included AAA batteries make the 
reader about half-again bigger than an 
iPod. If you’re shooting all day, rocking 
out on your iPod at the same time, the 
batteries are an obvious plus for the 
strain they spare the iPod’s battery. 

Given a choice, however, we’d prefer to 
travel light with a ’Pod-powered reader 
and recharge the iPod’s battery more 
frequently rather than lug this big-ass 
reader around. 

The reader supports CompactFlash 




Maybe we’re spoiled, but couldn’t this thing be about 
half as big and twice as fast? 



Types 1 and 2, SmartMedia, 

Secure Digital, MultIMediaCard, 
and Memory Stick— if you use the 
wee XD Extreme Digital cards, 
you’re out of luck. You’re also 
out of luck if you want to manage 
individual photos on your iPod— 
you import them as rolls instead 
of individual images, which is how 
they stay until you export them to 
your Mac or delete a roll. 

Image transfer from media 
cards to the iPod is slower than you’d 
expect, given the FireWire connection; 
we shuttled an almost-full 64MB SD 
Card (seven 9MB TIFFs) into the iPod in 
2 minutes 40 seconds. The same seven 
TIFFs flew into our Power Mac G5 in 1:45 
via USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 took 2:10). 

But moving images from the iPod into 



the Mac is pure joy, with FireWire’s 
speed and iPhoto’s smarts: just dock 
or plug In the iPod, and press iPhoto’s 
Import button. This reader is solid, if 
oversized. But for some digital-camera 
toters, the $100 it demands would be 
better spent on an extra media card. 
—Niko Coucouvanis 




COMPANY: Belkin 
CONTACT: 310-898-1100. 
www.belkin.com 

PRICE; $t09.99 (SRP), $99 (street) 



REQUIREMENTS: Docking iPod, 
supported media card (CompactFlash Type 
1 and 2, SmartMedia, Secure Digital (SD), 
Memory Stick, or MultiMediaCard (MMC) 



GOOD NEWS: Loads a gig of images onto your Mac 
in minutes. Slot cover keeps slots clean. 

BAD NEWS; Big. Slow media cards equal slow 



Maa4ddlctFlATED 

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transfer to iPod. 



SOLID 



[Trip 

FM TRANSMITTER FOR IPOD 

O n paper, the iTrip is perfect: an FM transmitter with no 
batteries to replace or recharge, and access to the full 
spectrum of radio frequencies instead of the usual four stations. 
Problem is, the urban radio dial Is a busy, noisy place. Add 
interference from power lines, airports, and solar flares (no 
kidding), and it can take forever to get a clear signal— forever 
meaning you may never get one. 

When driving through an area 
with tons of radio stations, iTrip 
is pure frustration— and in busy 
commute-time traffic, tuning and 
retuning the device via your iPod 
requires a dangerous amount 
of attention. The iTrip doesn’t 
always work, but we love it when 
it does— Niko Coucouvanis 







A. 

Not perfect, but still best of breed. 



Voice 

Recorder 



MICROPHONE FOR IPOD 




I n a perfect world, we’d plug a 
microphone into our iPod and capture 
the sound of our surroundings in pristine, 

CD-quality stereo. In the real world, 

Belkin’s Voice Recorder does just what its 
name implies: It records your impromptu Better for 
brainstorms, interviews, blackmail blackmail than 

fodder, and so on, saving the evidence as bootlegging a 
a date-and-tlme annotated monophonic conceit. 

WAV file on your iPod. You control the 
device via the iPod: record, save, or delete recorded notes, 
or play them through the recorder’s wee 16mm speaker. The 
Voice Recorder lacks line-level input for high-fidelity audio, 
but It’s great for low-fi sound capture.— A///co Coucouvanis 



COMPANY: Griffin Technologies PRICE: $35 

CONTACT: 615-399-7000. REQUIREMENTS: Any iPod 

www.grlffintechnology.com 




GOOD NEWS; Still the coolest FM transmitter 



MacAddlct RATED 



for iPods. 

BAD NEWS: Still emasculated by crowded airwaves. 



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COMPANY: Belkin PRICE; $59.99 (SRP). $49.95 (street) 

CONTACT: 310-898-1100. REQUIREMENTS: iPod with dock connector, iPod 
wvifw.belkin.com software 2.1 or later 



GOOD NEWS: Smart and small. Records a 


MacAddict RATED 


minute per megabyte. 
BAD NEWS: Way iow-fi. 


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This barcode scaimer 
would be greatrif 
not for Its tame 
companion software. 



Chronoscan 

BOOK-CATALOGING SYSTEM 

G ot books? The Chronoscan 

handheld scanner streamlines the 
process of cataloging your library. Just 
scan in your books’ bar codes, and the 
companion Library software translates 
the ISBN numbers, then searches 
Amazon. corn’s database for any relevant 
information to add to your records. 

That’s the theory. In reality. Library can’t 
always find what it needs, and when it 
does. It won’t print details beyond basic 
title and author info. 

Library exports (and imports) book 
data in tab-delimited text. It can also 
produce the list in HTML, complete with 
your Amazon Associate ID, so if you 
happen to be peddling Amazon’s wares 
on your Web site, just paste the HTML 
into your Web page and wait for your 



Amazon-affiliate commission 
nickels to start rolling in. 

Unfortunately, Library 
isn’t exactly “of Congress’’ 
quality. The Amazon database 
is free and extensive, but 
not exhaustive— though, if 
necessary, you can enter data 
by hand. Though Library adds both 
books and filters by ISBN, it cannot 
show or print the ISBN number in list 
view. Library also won’t print details 
for each book, only title, author, and 
cover-art thumbnails. These limitations 
basically render Library useless for 
serious inventory, even fora personal 
library. Unfortunately, the software 
is required (and sold separately at 
www.chronopath.com); it’s barely 



worth the ten bucks. 

The scanner itself has no apparent 
flaws and will read any barcode and 
spit out a string of numbers into any 
application that accepts text. Perhaps 
some enterprising developer will come 
to the rescue with capable software. 
With better software, the Chronoscan 
would be a formidable solution for 
any bibliophile who needs a library 
inventory.— yWoryE. Tyler 



COMPANY: Chronopath 
CONTACT: wwwxhronopath.com 
PRICE: $199.95. plus $10 for 
required Library software 



REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped 
Mac. Mac OS 10.1 or later 



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Quicken 2004’s new News Alerts gives you the latest on your 
stocks, but the info it chooses to show Is sometimes irrelevant. 



S till the leader in personal-finance 
software, Quicken provides 
powerful tools for analyzing your cash 
flow— all you need to do is feed it the 
appropriate financial statements. 

There are six main new features to 
consider: iCal support, customizable 
views of investment accounts, 
downloadable financial news and 
indicator information, better support 
for Bill Pay, the Emergency Records 
Organizer, and a new Aqua look. Our 
favorite of these is iCal support: With 
a click of a button, you can create a 
Quicken calendar in iCal to remind you 
of scheduled transactions— if they’re 
payouts, Bill Pay now lets you choose 
which of your accounts (up to ten) from 



which to deduct the 
amount. In the realm 
of investment, you can 
now view your assets 
by Asset Class and 
Industry sector, and if a 
newspaper icon appears 
next to an asset, you 
can click it to get the 
latest headlines. This 
news feature could use 
some refining, though: 

When we clicked the icon next to our 
test holdings of Apple Computer, Intel, 
and Cisco stocks, for example, we got 
stories in which these companies were 
mentioned but not the focus. 

Users of Quicken 2002 and earlier 



should appreciate the Aquafied 
2004 upgrade. If you already use 
Quicken 2003 and aren’t wowed 
by the new features, skip a year 
and check back in 2005. 
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PRICE: $59.95 Internet access for online features 



GOOD NEWS: Total Aqua makeover. iCal support. 
Downloadable financial indicators. 

BAD NEWS: Reiated news isn’t. Emergency 
Records Organizer is morbid. 



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KEYBOARD AND MOUSE 

I f you’re itching for a wireless 
mouse-keyboard combo but 
Apple’s new Bluetooth one-button 
mouse and matching keyboard are too 
minimalist for your tastes, Kensington’s 
Wireless Optical Desktop has 
frills aplenty— some of which we 
appreciate, like Sleep and Eject 
buttons, and some of which 
we’ll politely ignore, like the 
Web-browser navigation that 
works in Internet Explorer but 
not In our preferred Safari. 

One welcome feature is 
an ingenious power system: 

Kensington provides six 
rechargeable AA batteries— two 
each powerthe mouse and 
keyboard, and two more sit inside 
the wireless transmitter, which 
doubles as a battery charger. 



Plus, the batteries arrived charged, and 
survived almost a month of mousing 
before they needed recharging. 

The mouse has a smooth and simple 
design, with two buttons and a clickable 



scroll wheel. The keyboard works 
great, and its keys are stiff enough 
to give feedback while you type but 
don’t require a heavy typing hand or 
make excessive click- clatter when 
In use. The software, Kensington’s 
mighty MouseWorks for OS X (a System 
Preferences pane), is as superb as ever 
for programming the mouse’s 
buttons, tracking, and so on. The 
companion keyboard software, 
a separate System Preferences 
pane, allows you to program only 
three of the board’s action buttons 
to launch any app or load a Web 
site in your browser— any browser. 
Problem is, the keyboard’s other 
browser-navigation buttons work 
only in Internet Explorer. 

If you can use the extraneous 
keyboard buttons, this combo’s 
quality mouse and integrated 
battery charger make it a solid 
choice —Niko Coucouvanis 



This dynamic input duo works well, but the keyboard prefers 
Internet Explorer to Safari . 




COMPANY: Kensington 
CONTACT: 800-235-6708, 
www.kensington.com 
PRICE: $134.95 (SRP), $77.28 (street) 



REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped 
Mac, Mac OS 10.1 or later 



GOOD NEWS: Smartly integrated battery charger. 
Solid hardware. 



BAD NEWS: Most keyboard action buttons aren’t 



customizable. No caps lock light. 



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REVIEWS 




Store ’n’ Go 

USB 2.0 FLASH DRIVE 

V erbatim's Store 'n* Go is a 
credit to its flash-memory 
breed. On top of its zippy USB 2.0 
performance (roughly a zillion 
times faster than old-style USB 
1.1), which ourG5 PowerMac 
supports, Store *n' Go has just 
about everything we'd ask for in 
a flash drive: a tightly fitting cap, 
slick design, capacities up to 1GB, 
and even a trio of little raised dots 
on one side so you know which way is up when you plug it in. 
A Mac keyboard's USB 1.1 ports don't provide enough juice to 
power the little fella, and the drive is slow and inconvenient 
on older Macs. But Store 'n' Go is ideal for use with your G5's 
front-mounted USB 2.0 port— Niko Coucouvanis 




Finally, a fast flash drive. 



Memory Mini Mouse 

INPUT DEVICE/USB DRIVE 

I ogear put 32MB of flash memory into a tiny mouse that's 
perfect for travel and laptop work. This optical mouse features 
two buttons and a subtly glowing scroll wheel; it's too small to 
handle the way you would a normal mouse (middle finger on 
scroll wheel), but its height makes it fairly maneuverable. 

Plug it into your Mac, and the flash-memory volume mounts 
on the desktop. USB 1.1 flash memory is torturously slow, but 
it's a convenient way to 
transfer small files when 
there's no other option. 

Add a retractable 
cable, USB extender 
cord, and cute little 
travel pouch, and 
what's not to love? 

—Cathy Lu 




COMPANY: Verbatim 
CONTACT; 704-547-6500 
or 800-242-7503, 
www.verbatim.com 



PRICE: $21 to $350 (street; depending on 
capacity— 32MB to 1GB) 
REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped Mac, 
Mac OS 8.6 or later 



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GOOD NEWS: Solidly built. Fast USB 2.0 capability. 
BAD NEWS: Won’t work on a USB-equipped 
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REQUIREMENTS: USB-equipped Mac, 
Mac OS X (works only as a one-button 
mouse in Mac OS 9 and earlier) 



GOOD NEWS: Lightweight. Retractable cord. 
Two USB devices in one. 

BAD NEWS: USB 1.1 is Slow. Doesn’tfeel 
superdurable. 



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IK Multimedia AmpliTube Live 


$129.00 


Nov/03, p46 


Don't think software can replace monster guitar amps? It can. 


MOTU Digital Performer 3 


$795.00 


Feb/02, p58 


This pro-audio app has a great array of features. 


Propellerhead Software Reason 2.5 


$449.00 


Sep/03, p55 


It’s earned its rep as the top software sound studio. 



I Aspyr Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast 


$49,95 


Feb/03, p37 


Fantastic gameplay with both weapons and The Force. 


I Aspyr NASCAR Racing 2002 Season 


$39.99 


May/03, p57 


Realistic NASCAR racing on a Mac? Believe it. 


I Aspyr The Sims Unleashed 


$29.95 


May/03, p58 


Pixel-pets abound in the best Sims expansion pack yet. 


I MacSoft Unreal Tournament 2003 


$49.99 


Oct/03, p44 


Blood and gore. Violence. More blood, gore, and violence. 



GRAPHICS & LAYOUT 



Nikon 
Coolpix 5400 

“Beautiful, sharp..,exposures.” “Great 
color.” The “most detailed images.” No 
wonderyWac/Adcf/cf Senior Editor Kris 
Fong proclaimed the 5.1-megapixel 
Nikon Coolpix 5400 the best new 
prosumer digital camera. 




Olympus 

D-560Zoom° 

Forthe more budget-minded camera 
lover, Kris recommends the Olympus 
D-560 for its “sharp images with 
well-balanced exposures.” 

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Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 


$699.00 


Nov/03, p50 


If you’re in pro publishing, this is one must-have app. 


Adobe InDesign 2.0 


$609.00 


May/02, p50 


Look out. Quark— Adobe’s rival layout tool kicks butt. 


Adobe Photoshop 7 


$609.00 


Jul/02, p46 


Picture-perfect pixel pusher moves to Mac OSX. 


Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 


$99.00 


Dec/02, p40 


This app has most of Photoshop’s power for $500 less. 


FontLab 4.5,2 


$549.00 


May/03, p53 


The font editor all we type geeks have been waiting for. 


Hemera Photo-Objects 


$99.00 


Nov/03, p56 


50,000 quality images for under a hundred bucks. 


Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 


$399.00 


Sep/02, p44 


Our favorite Web -design tool gets a strong upgrade. 


Macromedia Flash MX 


$499.00 


Jul/02, p51 


It started in animation; now it can do anything. 


Macromedia FreeHand MX 


$399.00 


Jun/03, p49 


In the race with Adobe Illustrator, FreeHand pulls ahead. 


1 PRODUCTIVITY & UTILITIES 








1 Apple Keynote 


$99.00 


Apr/03, p48 


This presentation app was built for Mac OS X— and it shows. 


1 Bare Bones Software BBEdit 7,0.1 


$179.00 


Mar/03, p52 


By far the most powerful text editor money can buy. 


1 Microsoft Office v. X 


$499.00 


Feb/02, p42 


The 800-pound gorilla of productivity applications. 


1 Prolific Publishing Marine Aquarium 2 


$19.95 


Aug/03, p54 


OK, it’s just a screensaver— but it’s the coolest one ever. 


1 VIDEO & ANIMATION 








1 Adobe After Effects 5.5 


$649.00 


May/02, p49 


This motion-graphics stud improves Its 3D powers. 


1 Apple DVD Studio Pro 1.5 


$499.00 


Oct/02, p55 


Apple’s essential DVD-burning app gets even better. 


1 Apple Final Cut Pro 4 


$999.00 


Sep/03, p44 


This kick-ass video-editor now includes four new apps. 



ACCESSORIES 



Dr. Bott’s extendAIR Direct 


$149.95 


May/03, p51 


Make AirPort Extreme’s range noticeably more extreme. 


Formac Studio TVR 


$299.00 


Oct/03, p48 


Watch TV, record TV, digitize tapes— what’s not to like? 


Kensington Expert Mouse 


$127.95 


Oct/03, p60 


Optical trackball plus scroll wheel equals killer controller. 


MacWireless Power Over Ethernet 


$29.98 


Jun/03. p61 


Mount an AirPort Base Station 250 feet from AC power. 


Palm Zire 71 


$299.00 


Aug/03, p44 


A PDA, digital camera, and MP3 player all rolled into one. 




Can a big, fat hard 
drive find love? It 
can from MacAddict 
Reviews Editor Niko 
Coucouvanis, who 
called the WeibeTech 
FireSOO “a king among 
hard drives.” 



Apple 20GB iPod 


$399.00 


Jul/03, p44 


The world’s greatest MP3 player gets smaller and cooler. | 


Digidesign Mbox 


$495.00 


May/02, p59 


This audio interface is a traveling musician's delight. { 


Griffin Technology ITrip 


$35.00 


Aug/03, p52 


This IPod FM transmitter uses the entire frequency range. | 


DIGITAL CAMERAS \ 








Canon PowerShot S230 Digital Elph 


$399.00 


Mar/03, p48 


A great 3.2-megapixel camera in a tiny, low-cost package. 


Leica D-Lux 


$900.00 


Oct/03, p46 


Exceptional style married with exceptional image quality. 


Nikon Coolpix 5400 


; $799.95 


Dec/03, p22 


This prosumer camera handles well and shoots even better. 


Olympus C-4000 Zoom 


$449.00 


Jan/03, p52 


Great image quality, 4 megapixels, and vematile controls. 


Olympus D-560 Zoom 


$249.95 


Dec/03, p22 


This affordable polnt-and-shoot produces great images. 


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Aug/02, p45 Need a sturdy laser printer? This one’s a workhorse. 


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Oct/02, p42 The most stunning photo printer we’ve ever tested. 


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Jun/03, p47 


FireWire 800 speed meets solid-as-a-rock construction. 


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Jul/03, p53 


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MOVE YOUR HOME 
DIRECTORY 

How can I move my Home directory 
to an external drive? 

Just fire up Netinfo Manager 
(Applications > Utilities), select Enable 
Root User from the Security menu, select 
the slash symbol (/) in the left column of 
the top pane, find your user name in the 
middle column, and highlight it In the 
Property pane below, scroll down to the 
Home property, select it (click the lock 
icon to enable changes). In the menubar, 
go to Directory > Delete Value to erase 
the path to your old Home directory, then 
choose Directory > New Value and type 
the path to your desired Home directory 




Use the Netinfo Manager to move your 
Home directory to an external drive. 



(j.e., /Volumes/externalHD/new user). 
Note: While you can take your new 
externally located home directory and 
access the files on another Mac, that 
Mac won’t see you as a distinct user. 

MISSING CD-ROM ICON 

Since I upgraded to Mac OS X, CDs don’t 
show up on my desktop. What gives? 

In Mac OS 9, icons for functioning 
drives, media, and servers always show 
up on the Desktop. In Mac OSX, you 
have the option of hiding these icons. 

To make sure CDs show up when you 
insert them into your Mac’s drive, go to 
Finder > Preferences and make sure the 
Removable Media box is checked. If it is 
checked but CDs still don’t mount, try 
trashing the com.apple.finder.plist file 
(username > Library > Preferences)— your 
Mac will automatically recreate it when 
you restart. 

rindgr Prafgrencgs 

these Items on the Desktop: 

3 Hard disks 

3 Removable media (such as CDs) 

S Connected servers 

Check these boxes to make sure your hard 
drive, removable media, and server icons 
always appear on the Desktop. 



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The EXIF protocol saves a wealth of 
information about digital photographs. 



settings, shutter speed, file size, and 
camera model. A variety of applications, 
such as the free Simple EXIF Viewer for 
Mac OSX (http://homepage.mac.com 
/aozer/EV), can display this data. In 
iPhoto, you can highlight a picture and 
select Show Photo Info from the File 
menu to view EXIF data. 



CAMERA INFO 

What is EXIF data? 

Supported in just about all digital 
cameras, the EXIF (exchangeable image 
file format) protocol adds metadata 
tags to JPEG files. These tags contain 
information such as 
aperture size, lens 
focal length, flash 
information, exposure 



APPLEWORKS SLOWDOWN 

Why is running AppleWorks in 
Mac OSX so slow? 

The problem resides in AppleWorks’ 
Recent Items folder (user name > 
Documents > AppleWorks User Data > 
Starting Points > Recent Items). For 
every file you create In AppleWorks, 
AppleWorks creates an alias so you can 
easily access files from the Starting 



ON THE 

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quick 

Hanswers 

TO QUICK QUESTIONS 

BRUSH SIZES 

What is the keyboard command for 
increasing brush size In Photoshop? 

Press the left-bracket key ([)to make 
the brush smaller, and the right- 
bracket key (]) to make it bigger. 



TABBED BROWSING 

What is Tabbed Browsing? 

Tabbed Browsing lets you open multiple 
Web pages in the same window by 
assigning each Web page a tab within 
that window. Clicking a tab brings Its 
Web page to the 
front. You can 
enable Tabbed 
Browsing In Safari 
by opening the 



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FUNCTION KEYS 

How can I get my 
PowerBook’s function 
keys to act as function 
keys instead of volume 
and brightness controls? 

Hold down the fn key in the lower-left 
corner of your PowerBook’s keyboard 
while pressing the appropriate F-key to 
use an F-key as an F-key. 



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MICRO MAIL PRINT 

When I print from Apple’s Mail 
program in Mac OS X» the 
print is microscopic. 

How can I make my 
prints readable? 

Resize your email 
window. If you make 
the email window 
larger, the type will 
print larger. If you 
make the email window smaller, the type 
will print smaller. 



DISK UTILITY OPTIONS 

Norton Disk Doctor can’t fix the 
problems on my drive. 

What else can I do? 

While no disk utility 
can guarantee a fix, 
before you reformat 
(i.e., erase) your hard 
drive, try’Alsoft’s Diskwarrior ($79.95, 
www.alsoft.com) or Micromafs Drive 
10 ($69.95, www.micromatcom), both 
of which can fix some problems that 
Norton can’t. 



68 Build Your 
Own Music Maker 

Your Mac has a hidden stash of 
instrument sounds—we show you 
how to build a keyboard that’ll let you 
play them all. 



72 Play Hidden 
Unix Games and 
Other Oddities 

The Terminal isn’tjust 
a geek hangout—it’s 
a secret hideout filled 
with classic games. 
Wanna play? We show 
you the way. 



74 Make Widgets 
with Konfabulator 

If you can think it, you can make 
an app to do it for 
you— with some 
realistic caveats, 
of course. Take 
our Introductory 
course to the art of 
Widget-making. 



No whining— 
anyone 
can do this! 



UNIX UNIVERSITY 



COPY THAT 

How do you duplicate a file in Unix? 

To duplicate a file via the command- 
line, use the cp (copy) command. For 
example, to duplicate a file named 
myfile.doc and call it myfile.doc.bkp 
within the same directory, type this: 
cp myfile.doc myfile.doc.bkp 

To create a duplicate of everything in a 
directory (except directories) use the 
* wildcard: 

cp /folderold/* /foldernew 
To duplicate every file in the 



/Documents folder into a folder called 
BackedupFiles: 
cp /Documents/* (space) 
/BackedupFiles 

To copy directories, use the «r flag: 
cp -p /Documents/* (space) 
BackedupFiles 

To copy the myfile.doc from the 
Documents folder to your working 
directory, end your command with a 
period, like so: 

cp /Documents/myfile.doc . 



i Recent Items 



P Starting Points 



Empty this folder to speed up AppleWorks. 

Points window. If there are too many 
aliases in this folder, AppleWorks 
will screech to a halt (and we mean 
halt). Emptying this folder will bring 
AppleWorks back to full speed. 

CALENDAR SHARING 

Employees of my small business, which 
runs on Macs, need to share projects, 
schedules, and calendars. What 
software would you recommend? 

AEC Software’s FastTrack Schedule 8 
($22,475 for 25 licenses or $299 for 
single user, www.aecsoft.com) works 
through a network server, allowing users 



to share project-tracking information- 
including schedules, people, equipment, 
and materials. Now Software’s Now 
Up-to-Date & Contact ($129.95 per 
user, www.nowsoftware.com) lets 
cross-platform users share contact and 
calendar information. Another option 
is Microsoft’s Exchange Server system, 
which works best with Mac OS 9-only 
Macintosh Outlook 
or Mac OSX-only 
Entourage through 
a plug-in. 



ON THE 

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FastTrack Schedule 
8 demo 



Use FastTrack Schedule 8 to track 
business projects across a network. 



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HOWTO 

build your own music maker 



Build Your Own Music Maker 

by Erick Tejkowski 




WHAT YOU NEED 

• Mac OS X ($129, www.apple.com) 

• QuickTime 5 or later 

• REALbasic 5 or later ($149.95, www.realsoftware.com) 

• Music Project tutorial files (on the Disc) 



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P ianos, guitars, sitars, tubas— musical Instruments can 
be frivolous expenditures if you just want poke around 
but don't want to invest the time needed to learn 
them. Lucky for you, your Mac has a closet full of musical 

instruments stashed inside— you just need 
to coax them out to play. Wouldn't it be 
great to have an application that could put 
all of those instruments at your fingertips, 
playable from your own desktop keyboard? 



You can— and we show you how to build that 
app yourself. 

The key Ingredient here is REALbasic. We show you how 
to use it to build a desktop piano-style keyboard that will let 
you control volume and instrument selection, and then use 
REALbasic's NotePlayer control to play a tune, using one of 
128 different instruments and sound effects from Apple's 
QuickTime Music Synthesizer (see “What's That Sound?”, 
p70, for a complete list of instruments). 



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Gain Some Control Launch REALbasic 
to start a new project. In the properties window for 
Windowl, type a name for your application’s interface 
in the Title field. From the controls palette, drag a 
NotePlayer, a Canvas, a horizontal ScrollBar, a LittleArrows, 
and two Slider controls into the window editor (the empty 
Untitled window that will become your keyboard interface). 

Click the Canvasl control in the window editor. Change Width 
to 596 and Height to 99 in the properties window, and then 
resize the window to fit. ScrollBarl will scroll the keyboard 
so you can play different keyboard octaves— click its control 
in the window editor, and set Width to 596 in the properties 
window. Sliderl will adjust volume and Slider2 will change the 
instrument— click each control and set Maximum to 127 in the After changing the Canvasl control's width and height, resize 

properties window. the window so It displays all controls fully. 





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Build the Interface Drag three StatlcText 
controls from the controls palette into the window 
editor. Click StaticTextl, and in the properties window, 

I type instLabel in the Name field and check the Visible 
box; this control will display the current instrument number used 
by the NotePlayer (the default is 1, a piano sound). Drag this to 
the right of the LittleArrows control, which will allow you to change 
instrument numbers incrementally. The remaining two StaticText 
controls will label the sliders. Click StaticText2 and in the properties 
window, type Volume: in the Text field and check the Visible box. Click 
StaticText3, type Instrument: in the Text field, and check the Visible 
box. Then position all controls in your project so they look like those 
in our screenshot (right), and save your project in its own folder as a 
REALbasic Standard Project. 







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REALbasic is that you can use practically any class (a 
template that describes how an object behaves) from 
another project with your current one— we created a custom 
keyboard class for you, so you don’t have sweat it out on your own 
unless you want to. Grab KeyboardCanvas from the Disc, and drag 
it into the project window (the one that holds project components 
such as Windowl and App) to add it. 

The KeyboardCanvas class is already 
programmed to trigger note values. By 

using it, you gain the benefits 
of the class without the hassle 
of recreating it. To tie it to 
your interface, click the Canvasl control 
in the window editor, and then select 
KeyboardCanvas from the Super drop- 
down menu in the properties window. 

Now Canvasl has the functionality of a 
keyboard; it just doesn’t look like one yet. 



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keyboard project to play music. 



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of 14 PICT images to create the look of a piano 
keyboard. One image displays all 128 keys on 
the keyboard. Another displays a single keyboard octave. 
The remaining twelve show a keyboard octave with a 
particular key pressed. We included all 14 images on 
the Disc to save you a /of of time. Feel free to customize 
the images in your favorite graphics application. To add 
these graphics to your project, copy the Art folder from 
the Disc (in the Music Project folder) to the same folder 
that holds your project. Then drag the Art folder from 
your project folder to the project window to add them. 



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6 Add Control to the Controls Because the entire piano keyboard 
display is very large (128 keys total), the ScrollBar control will enable you to 
horizontally scroll through the lowest to the highest octaves on the keyboard 
display. Click the ScrollBarl control in the window editor, and then check the 
LiveScroll box at the bottom of the properties window. Double-click the ScrollBarl 
control to bring up the Code Editor, click the ValueChanged event to select it, and add 
the following code between the Sub lines: 

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To program Sliderl to control volume, click the Sliderl triangle in the Code Editor window 
to display its events, click ValueChanged, and type Canvasl-theVolume = me. value 
between the Sub lines. To enable Slider2 to access the 128 instrument sounds, display 
Slider2*s events, click ValueChanged, and enter this code between the Sub lines: 
Canvasl.thePlayer.Instrument = me. value 
instLabel.text = strCme.value) 

To enable the LittleArrows control to increase the instrument number by one, display its 
events in the Code Editor, click the Up event, and type the following code between the 
Sub lines. 

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slid er2. value = slider2.value+l 

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instrument number by one. 
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your project. 

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7 Debug, Tickle, and Build The moment of truth arrives. From the 
Debug menu, select Run. REALbasic compiles your app and then launches it. 
Test it out by tickling the ivories (and ebonies), moving the Volume slider, and 
changing instruments. If everything looks, works, and sounds good, quit the 
test application, switch back to your REALbasic project, and select Build Settings from 
the File menu. In the resulting dialog, you can choose 
any platform on which to build your app (Classic Mac 
OS, Mac OS X, Windows, or any mix of these). Since 
our project was designed for OS X, check o.nly the Mac 
OS X (Carbon) box. From the pop-up menu, select 
Macintosh Settings, and then give your masterpiece a 
name in the Mac OS X Name field. Click OK to build the 
settings. Then select Build Application from the File 
menu to bring your app to life and play. 



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OS X, Classic Mac, and even Windows (if you dare go 
there). For this project, choose Mac OS X. 



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WHAT'S THAT 
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When you fire up your new keyboard 
app and start tinkering away, the 
default instrument you hear is 
QuickTime’s Acoustic Grand Piano 
(instrument 1). But you’ve got 
another 127 diverse noisemakers at 
your fingertips. Here’s the complete 
list of all instruments in QuickTime’s 
synthesizer and their numbers for 
you to dial up in your spiffy new app. 



[ Piano 


Chromatic Percussion 


1— Acoustic Grand Piano 


9— Celesta 


2— Bright Acoustic Piano 


1 0— Glockenspiel 


3— Electric Grand Piano 


1 1— Music Box 


A — Honky-Tonk Piano 


1 2— Vibraphone 


5— Electric Piano 1 


13— Marimba 


6— Electric Piano 2 


14— Xylophone 


7— Harpsichord 


15— Tubular Bells 


&— Clavinet 


1 6 — Dulcimer 


Oujan 


Guitar 


1 7— Drawbar Organ 


25— Nylon Siring Guitar 


18— Percussive Organ 


26— Steel String Guitar 


19— Rock Organ 


27— Electric Jazz Guitar 


20— Church Organ 


28— Electric Clean Guitar 


21— Reed Organ 


29— Electric Guitar Muled 


22— Accordian 


30— Overdriven Guitar 


23— Harmonica 


3 1— Distortion Guitar 


24 — Tango Accordian 


32— Guitar Harmonics 


Bass 


Strinys 


33— Acoustic Bass 


41— Violin 


34— Electric Bass (fingered) 


42-Viola 


35— Electric Bass (picked) 


43— Cello 


36— Fretless Bass 


44 — Contrabass 


37— Slap Bass 1 


45— Tremolo Strings 


38 — Slap Bass 2 


46— Pizzicato Strings 


39— Synth Bass 1 


47— Orchestral Strings 


40— Synth Bass 2 


48— Timpani 


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Brass 


49— String Ensemble 1 


57— Trumpet 


50— String Ensemble 2 


58— Trombone 


51— Synth Strings 1 


59 — ^Tuba 


52— Synth Strings 2 


60— Muted Trumpet 


53— Choir Aahs 


61— French Horn 


54— Choir Oohs 


62— Brass Section 


55— Synth Vox 


63— Synth Brass 1 


56— Orchestra Hit 


64— Synth Brass 2 


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Pipe 


65— Soprano Sax 


73— Piccolo 


66— Alto Sax 


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67— Tenor Sax 


75— Recorder 


68— Baritone Sax 


76— Pan Flute 


69— Oboe 


77— Bottle Blow 


70— English Horn 


78— Skakuhachi 


71— Bassoon 


79— Whistle 


72— Clarinet 


80— Ocarina 


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81— Square Wave 


89— Fantasy 


82— Sawtooth Wave 


90 — Warm 


83— Calliope 


91— Polysynth 


84— Chiffer 


92— Choir 


85— Charang 


93— Bowed 


86— Solo Vox 


94— Metallic 


87— Fifths Saw Wave 


95— Halo 


88— Bass & Lead 


96— Sweep 


Synlii Effects 


Ethnic 


97— Rain 


105— Sitar 


98— Soundtrack 


106— Banjo 


99 — Crystal 


107— Shamisen 


100— Atmosphere 


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101— Brightness 


|i09— Kalimba 


102— Goblins 


11 10— Bagpipe 


103— Echoes 


1 1 1— Fiddle 


1 04 — Space 


1 12— Shanai 


Percussive 


Sound Effects | 


1 13— Tinkle Bell 


121— Guitar Fret Noise 


1 1 4— Agogo 


122— Breath Noise 


1 15— Steel Drums 


123— Seashore 


1 16— Woodblock 


124— Bird Tweet 


1 17— Taiko Drum 


125— Telephone Ring 


1 18— Melodic Tom 


1 26— Helicopter 


1 19— Synth Drum 


1 27— Applause 


120— Reverse Cymbal 


1 28— Gunshot 



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Play Hidden Unix Games and 
Other Oddities 

by Ian Harris 




WHAT YOU NEED 

• Mac OS X ($129, www.apple.com) 



Y ou Darwin dwellers and fans of classic 
games are in for some Terminal 
treatment. Ever since we showed 
you two Unix gems buried deep inside Mac 
OS X (see “Terminal Laughter,” Mar/03, 
p63), you’ve been asking us for more, so 
here you go. 

Everyone knows Mac OS X is rooted in 
Mork-and-Mindy-era Unix, but you don’t need 
to be a Unix geek to join in the fun. just head 
straight to the Terminal and enjoy the ride. If 
you’re running Panther, some of these games 
have now gone GUI— if not, ASCII is the look 
of the day. (We also changed our Terminal 
windows colors in the Window Settings to 
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The Terminal isn’t all about ^te manipulation and commands— there’s fun to be had 
(playing this “connect-ffye” game, Gomoku, for example) If you know where to look. 




I Take a Look at Your Options To get a list of all the fun 

oddities that await you, launch the Terminal. At the prompt, type 
Is /usr/share/Bmacs/21.1/lisp/piay, and press Return— Panther 
users should substitute 21,2 for 21,1, A list of all installed game scripts will 
appear. Now get ready to play. Select New Shell from the File menu— this will open 
a new Terminal window so you don’t lose your list. In the new window, type emacs, 
and press Return to launch Emacs, a Unix-based text editor. Press Esc (escape), and 
then press X to move to the menubar command-line at the bottom of the window. 

If you don’t often troll through the Terminal, you probably 
never knew these games were already on your Mac. 




2 Slither and Snack in Snake To play a game, type its name at 
the Emac window’s command-line prompt, minus the .el or .elc extension. 

For example, type snake and press Return, then try out the fantastic text- 
based version of the classic Snake game. Don’t know how to play? Just use 
your keyboard’s arrow keys to guide the snake (if you’re running a pre-Panther OS, it’s 
really a line of Os) around an arena where it can gobble up all the apples (represented 
by asterisks) by running into them. If your snake hits a wall or bumps into its own tail, 
it’s curtains for old slippy. Be prepared— your snake travels faster and gets longer 
with each apple it eats. Type q to quit this or any game. 

Snake ain’t just for cell phones— just type snake, and you’ll be 
met with a ravenous bar— or a line of Os in pre-Panther OSs. 



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3 Tumble Through Tetris YouVe seen the clones, knockoffs, and 

inspired versions of this classic game— now you can play the Unix version. First, 
press Control-X to clear the Emacs screen and get a one-window view. Then 
press 1. To play Tetris, press the Esc key, press X, type tetris, and press Return. 
For the uninitiated (what rock have you been hiding under?), the object of the game is to 
keep falling blocks from stacking up and filling up your game field. You prevent this by 
strategically positioning the falling blocks to form a solid horizontal line, which eradicates 
that level. Use your keyboard's left and right arrow keys to shift the blocks left or right, 
press the up and down arrows to rotate the piece, and press the spacebar to make the 
block drop down instantly. Unix’s Tetris might not have the funky disco music of other 
versions (or color in pre-Panther OSs), but it’s still a good way to spend a lunch hour. 

This Unix version of Tetris may not be as pretty as the hundred- 
some clones out there, but gameplay is the same (and we still suck). 




4 Ping and Pong If you’re looking to preserve brain cells for more important 
matters, why not play the first-ever arcade game. Pong? Clear the Emacs screen, 
press Escape, and then press X to call up the menubar command-line. To start 
playing, type pong and press Return. You know the drill: Move the paddle to keep 
the ball In play. Miss it, and you’re a loser. In the Unix version, two people can play. One 
uses the up and down arrows to move the left paddle, and the other uses the left and right 
arrow keys to control the right paddle. Playing this way obviously means you have to get 
close to your opponent, so it’s best to only challenge people who have showered recently. 



Believe it or not, this is the game that started the video-game evolution. 




5 See a Shrink Games aren’t the only thing hidden in Mac OS X. If you’re 
feeling a little off, free psychotherapy sessions are yours for the taking. Clear the 
Emacs screen, navigate to the command-line, type doctor* and press Return to 
pay a visit to your personal Mac shrink. “I am the psychotherapist,” the doctor 
states. "Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type Return 
twice.” Say you’re tired, and the doc asks you why you say you’re tired. Complain about a 
nosebleed, and you’ll get, “Perhaps your life has something to do with this.” If you threaten 
to kill yourself, the doctor gets very serious and gives you a couple of email contacts and a 
Web site address to get some real help. 

We’re not sure who’s more delusional— us or our Mac shrink. 




1 am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your prdsletis. 
Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. 

Doc, I swear that I 'n going nuts. 

Is It because you ore going nuts that you caee to me? 

Ateo lately. 

Con you elaborate on that? 

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Does it bother you that you ore going nuts? 

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enjoying »y sorry stote i«»enseiy. 

When did you first know that you thlrtt that the squirrels 
are enjoying your sorry state tomensely? 



6 Get A Life Now that the shrink has fried your fragile mind, perhaps a bit of 
serene peacefulness is in order. If all you want to do is sit and stare, you can call 
up Life, one of the first screen savers. Clear the Emacs screen, move down to the 
command-line, and type life. You'll get a text-based representation of dividing 
cells. A single cell (represented by an @ sign) appears in the middle of the screen. After 
a couple of seconds, one splits into two, two become four, and so on. To see a different 
pattern, quit (type q), and start it over again. Life doesn’t live forever— our cell patterns 
died after about 80 generations or moved off the screen completely— but it’s been around 
since the 80s, so we’ll give it a break. 




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74 <1 howto 

/ \ ^ make Widgets with Konfabulator 



Make Widgets with Konfabuiator 

by Johnathon WiHiams 



WHAT YOU NEED 

• Mac OS 10.2.3 or later 
($129, www.apple.com) 

• Konfabulator 1.5 or later 
($25, www.konfabulator.com) 

• Image editor that supports 
transparency and PNG format, 
such as Adobe Photoshop 
($609, www.adobe.com) 

or GraphicConverter 
($35, www.lemkesoft.com) 

• Text editor, such as BBEdit 
($179, www.barebones.com) 
or TextEdit (part of OS X) 

• iCal with scheduled calendar 
of events (part of OS 10.2) 



Welcome to the Widget factory. Get comfortable. You*re going to want to stay awhile. 





M ac addicts have a powerful new ally in their 

continuing war against unused leisure time. It's 
called Konfabulator, and it’s the best thing out there 
if you’re looking to create simple, great-looking, mini desktop 
applications, called Widgets, With a little practice, even 

programming novices can use Konfabulator to 
create apps that do just about anything (short 
of snagging a date with a supermodel, cleaning 
the cat box, and other far- fetched ideas). 



Strictly speaking, Konfabulator is billed as a “Java 
runtime engine” (urn, no, we don’t know exactly what that 
means either). Simply speaking, it’s shareware that runs 
in the background, combining graphics and scripts to 
create Widgets for your desktop. Here, we show you how 
to build a simple Widget— one that displays tomorrow’s 
first appointment from the schedule at the top of your iCal 
calendar list. Keep in mind that this is an introduction— take 
what you learn and run with it. 



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Konfabulator 1.5.2 



1 Launch Time On first launch, 

Konfabulator displays a series 
of dialogs that walk you through 
the initial set-up, which includes 
installing a bunch of premade Widgets in 
your Documents folder, launching a few 
Widgets and displaying directions on howto 
access and manipulate them, showing how to 
access the gear menu, and telling you where 
to find more Widgets on the Web. Once you 
finish the walkthrough, the app opens the 
Widgets folder (the one it created in your 
Documents folder). 



2 Make Your GUI Gorgeous Most Widgets perform 

a simple function, but that doesn’t mean you should skimp on its 
appearance. To create your calendar faceplate (this Widget requires 
only a space to display appointment info, but feel free to add other 
design accoutrements— we added a logo and the iCal icon to spruce up ours), 
launch your graphics app (we used Photoshop). First, create a new, relatively 
small document, keeping in mind that it will be soaking up desktop space; we 
set ours to 475 by 250 pixels. Next, create a new layer, turn off the Background 
layer’s visibility, and start designing your Widget. Be sure to design at least 
one element that can hold two lines of text and display black text legibly. From 
there, layer stuff, add shadows, create bevels, play with opacity— go crazy. 
When finished, create a new folder called images, and save your work as a PNG 
file inside of it. 




Once you complete the Initial setup, 
Konfabulator displays the Widgets It installed. 




You don’t need to be a skilled artist to create good-looking Widgets— 
Photoshop filters and a bit of copy-and- paste make for a good recipe. 



74 MacAddict January 2004 




HOWTO 75 



3 Mark the Markup 

Language To construct a Widget, 
you need to feed Konfabulator display 
instructions via an XML file— XML 
(extensible markup language) is similar to HTML 
In that it structures information by placing it 
between bracketed tags. To code, start with an 
opening tag (for example, <width>), follow it with 
specific information for that tag (typing 400 would 
set the width to 400 pixels in this scenario), 
and then end the instruction with a closing tag 
(for example, </width>). To create our calendar 
Widget, launch your favorite text editor (If using 
TextEdit, use plain-text formatting), type <?xml 
version="1.0" Bncoding=”UTF-B"?>, and 
press Return. This tells XML parsers that the file 
adheres to XML 1.0 specifications and is encoded 
in Unicode UTF-8. Then type <widget>, the 
opening tag for your Widget instruction. Press 
Return twice to skip a line and then press Tab to 
indent. Next, type <debug>on< /debug), press 
Return twice, and then press Tab— this turns on 
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Before you start writing up the XML code, 
precede your instructions with this first line of 
info, so that XML parsers will know what they're 
dealing with. 



4 Build the Skeleton with XML Just copy our XML 
instructions (shown here) into your text doc, but substitute the 
following variables with your own: for window title, supply an 
app name; for width and height, enter your image's dimensions 
accordingly; for image src, keep the path but substitute icaladdictpng with 
your image's name. Copy the rest of the code as shown for now— you’ll tweak 
the text offsets (<vOffset> and <hOffset>) later since your graphic 
will vary In size from ours. To keep things simple, we used only one image 
In our Widget, but Konfabulator can support multiple images— put each image 
in its own XML tag section and include offset and alignment tags 
for placement. You can also set opacity tags. When finished, save your 
file as iCalAddict (or the like) in plain text, but omit a file extension— you’ll 
add one later. 




The painless way to code a Widget? Plagiarize. Well, with our code anyway. 
Just copy our text line for line, but fill in your own variables. 



A WORD ABOUT WIDGETS 



Before you start building, you should know a few things 
about Konfabulator and Widgets in general. Because 
Konfabulator runs as a background app, you won't find its 
icon in the Dock, instead, it presents itself as a menubar 
item— its icon looks like a pair of gears and is located 
toward the menubar’s right side when it’s running. To 
quit Konfabulator and all running Widgets, select Quit 
Konfabulator from this gear menu. To quit an individual 
Widget, Control-click the Widget interface and select Close 
Widget from the contextual menu. 

The calendar Widget in this tutorial barely scratches the 
surface of what you can do with Konfabulator. Anything 
JavaScript and AppleScript can do, a Widget can do, so the 
possibilities are practically endless. One of the easiest ways 
to improve your Widget-making skills is to look at how others 



script their Widgets. You can examine the XML and scripting 
of any Widget by Control-clicking a Widget's Icon, selecting 
Show Package Contents from the contextual menu, and 
opening the .kon file in any text editor. 

To expand your Widget-making abilities, we highly 
recommend downloading the Widget XML & JavaScript 
Reference file from www.konfabulator.com/workshop (if 
you get stuck, the site's Forums page is also a good place to 
seek help). This PDF contains a wealth of information about 
XML tags and several JavaScript extensions supported by 
Konfabulator. Although AppleScript knowledge is handy, 
to get to the meat of Konfabulator's abilities, get to know 
JavaScript. David Flanagan’s /ovaScr/pf, TheDepnitive Guide 
is an excellent reference book, published by O'Reilly (this one 
has a Rhino on the cover). 



January 2004 MacAddIct 75 





7A <1 TO 

/ W make Widgets with Konfabulator 



5 Script the Brain Congratulations. You now have 
a perfectly valid XML skeleton for a Widget. Konfabulator 
could load and display this file as a Widget with no 
problem. However, unless you create a script that tells 
the Widget what to do, your GUI goodie will just sit there on your 
desktop, looking vacant. Though Konfabulator prefers JavaScript, 
it also allows you to execute AppleScript instructions from within a 
JavaScript. This script uses AppleScript to tap into your first calendar 
in iCal and copy the info for your next scheduled appointment. 

It starts with tomorrow’s schedule and displays the info in your 
calendar Widget— make sure you have something scheduled before 
you begin. Copy the entire script shown here into the line above the 
closing </widget> tag in your XML file. Because AppleScripts must 
pass through JavaScript without line breaks, we added the new 
line indicator— \n— to keep commands from getting garbled. In our 
example, the text is wrapped for easy reading, but remember not to 
use the Return key when typing this script. When finished, save the 
file again. 







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after (current date)) \n get start date of EV_1 as string \n end 
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after (current date)) \n end tell \n‘ ); 

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Faster than any secretary, this JavaScript-wrapped AppleScript taps into 
iCal and pulls data for your first appointment tomorrow. 



6 Package it and Play Konfabulator 

stores Widgets inside of packages, or folders 
that the operating system treats as a single 
entity. To create a package for your Widget, 
first create a folder named iCalAddict (or whatever you 
want to name your Widget). Inside of this folder, create 
another folder named Contents. Drag the images folder 
that holds your PNG file into the Contents folder. Next, 
drag your XML text file into the Contents folder, and 
then add the extension ,kon to your XML file. A dialog 
appears, asking if you really want to do this; click Use 
.kon. Now add the extension .widgetto the ICalAddict 
(or equivalent) folder. Again, a dialog appears, asking 
if you want to make the change. Click Add, and the 
folder icon magically transforms into the standard 
Konfabulator Widget icon. To open the package, 
Control-click the Widget icon and select Show Package 
Contents from the contextual menu; a new window 
opens with your Contents folder inside. Close up the 
package by closing its window, double-click the Widget 
icon, and watch the fireworks. 



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7 Debug da Bugs But yikes! what 

you see is likely not what you had in mind. 
Relax. This Is normal. Remember what 
we said In step 4 about the <vOffset> and 
<hOffset> tags— the numbers for these probably 
need some adjusting so thatyourtwo appointment 
texts align with your graphic. Along with your 
Widget, a debug window appears. If everything 
executed correctly, the debug window displays 
a nondescript “Loaded Widget” message. If not, 
you’ll see red error messages— typos are the most 
likely cause of errors. To fix everything, open up 
your Widget’s package, open your iCalAddict.kon 
file in your text editor, readjust the offset values, 
and double-check yourtyping. When finished, save 
your changes and click the Reload button at the 
bottom of the debug window. Repeat this process 
until all errors are gone. Once everything is working 
and looking good, go back into your iCalAddict.kon 
file and change the <debug> value from on to off 
to get rid of the debug window. The next time you 
activate your Widget, Konfabulator will display it in 
all its shiny, solitary glory. 




Even the best programmers get bugs— time to go Orkin on them. 

johnathon Williams is working on a Widget that will deliver a high-voltage shock 
to his body when he stops working and starts doing something superfluous— like 
Widget-making. 



76 MacAddlct January 2004 





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Your article, “Protect Yourself 
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THEMACSCAN 

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I read “Protect Yourself 
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(Oct/03, p40) and want 
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The MacScan application 
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The article itself was good, 
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however, the writers of each 
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WE'RE PINK. THE 
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In November 2003’sAs/c 
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Until John Ashcroft 
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IVly gripe is with your 
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Oct/03, pl3) that accused 
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THE LOGIC 
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I disagree with your choice 
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Its competitor vi is available 
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I believe vi should have been 
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In the Digital Performervs. 
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